The 'O' Antiphons - for Gaza: O Adonai

Vezelay Capital - The Mystic Mill. Moses pours the grain that St Paul receives.

18th December - O Adonai

O Adonai, and leader of the House of Israel,
who appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush,
and gave him the law on Sinai:
Come and redeem us with an outstretched arm.

For Gaza

What words can we use

to utter Your name,

O Holy One beyond all things?

Master?

Lord who has sovereignty over us?

These are inadequate

Always somebody will be disturbed by what they mean

Or convey.

Yet, still our thoughts,

calm our inquisitiveness.

At this moment, O Adonai,

Ancient Loving One,

who is the true Law,

the fire in the burning bush

that does not consume or destroy,

destroy not us, but consume our sin in forgiveness.

O Adonai, the leader we really yearn for

but know not.

Come to us

reach across the barriers

we religions of the `Book

set up against each other.

Shake us into reality,

to know that You alone are One,

You alone are the Most High,

and it is to you

we owe the true obedience of our hearts.

O Adonai,

before you we take off our shoes

in reverence and true loving fear.