Join youth from Christ Dowling and Zion Luckey for an Advent Prayer Service. Based on the O Antiphons, a set of medieval refrains originally used before and after the singing of the Magnificat. Each invokes the Messiah under a different title derived from the Old Testament. This title is then amplified and followed by an appeal to “come” and save us in a particular way.

Around the twelfth century, they were collected into a Latin verse hymn, which was later translated by John Mason Neale, finally becoming the beloved Advent hymn “O come, O come, Emmanuel” (ELW 257, LBW 34).

These antiphons form the structure of this service that will be lead by the Zion and Christ Youth Group.