O Rex Gentium: O King of the Gentiles
This O Antiphon makes today a “little” Ash Wednesday: Come, and deliver man, whom you formed out of the dust of the earth. This plea is that God will save all humanity, all He created and formed from the dust of the earth. Come Lord Jesus breathe the breath of your life into us and make us one.
O Rex Gentium
O King of the gentiles/nations and their desired One,
O King of the gentiles/nations and their desired One,
the cornerstone that makes both one:
come, and deliver man,
whom you formed out of the dust of the earth.
This Antiphon is based on the following scripture:
Isaiah 28:16 “Therefore, thus says the Lord God: See, I am laying a stone in Zion, a stone that has been tested, a precious cornerstone as a sure foundation; he who puts his faith in it shall not be shaken.”
Psalm 118:22 “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.”
Matthew 21:42 “Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes’?””
Mark 12:10 “Have you not read this scripture: “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone…””
Luke 20:17 “But he looked at them and asked, “What then does this scriptures passage mean: ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?”
Acts 4:11 “He is the stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.”
Ephesians 2:20 “build upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.”
Revelation 15:3 “and they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are your works, Lord God almighty. Just and true are your ways, O King of the Nations.””
O Come O Come Emmanuel
Latin
Veni, veni, Rex Gentium, Veni
Redemptor omnium,
ut salvas tuos
famulos Peccati sibi conscious.
English
O come Desire of nations,
bind in one the hearts of all mankind;
Bid every strife and quarrel cease
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