antiphon

antiphon, in Roman Catholic liturgical music, chant melody and text sung before and after a psalm verse, originally by alternating choirs (antiphonal singing).

a verse or a series of verses sung as a prelude or conclusion to some part of the service.

Examples of Antiphons Give peace, O Lord, to those who wait for you, that your prophets be found true. Hear the prayers of your servant, and of your people Israel. How precious is your mercy, O God!

Antiphons are passages (usually from Scripture) meant to be sung before and after verses from the Psalms or canticles of Holy Scripture. That likely sounds familiar because this is essentially how the Responsorial Psalm functions.

Antiphon made an early and important contribution to mathematics when he made an attempt to square the circle. In doing so he became the first to propose a method of exhaustion although it is not entirely clear how well he understood his own proposal.

Each text, in the original Latin, begins with the vocative particle "O". Each antiphon is a title of Christ, one of his attributes mentioned in Scripture. They are: 17 December: O Sapientia (O Wisdom)

Antiphon lived in the late 5th century B.C.E. He may or not be the Athenian orator of that name. Fragments of his work on nature as well as another comment in Aristotle's Physics 193a12-14. Simplicius wrote his commentary on the Physics sometime around the 540's.

The O antiphons make their point – our God is one that has accompanied his people throughout history, longing to love us and to save us. The O antiphons are a powerful way to ponder the Incarnation and bring Advent to its conclusion.

Antiphon, (flourished c. 480 - 411 bc, Athens), orator and statesman, the earliest Athenian known to have taken up rhetoric as a profession.

The Antiphon (1958) is a three-act verse tragedy by Djuna Barnes.

A new aspect is to see how these 'O' Antiphons are not just Old Testament titles of the past, but to see these antiphons in the three moments. These are also titles of Christ, each fulfilled through his life. The antiphons also point to the complete fulfillment at the end of time, at Parousia.

Together, these antiphons spell out “a hopeful message about the coming of the long-awaited Messiah, of Jesus as we prepare for his birthday each year on Dec.