{"id":5896,"date":"2010-12-20T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T06:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=5896"},"modified":"2011-12-21T04:49:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T10:49:05","slug":"o-clavis-david-o-key-of-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/20\/o-clavis-david-o-key-of-david\/","title":{"rendered":"O Clavis David: O Key of David"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>O Clavis David,<br \/>\net sceptrum domus Isra\u00ebl,<br \/>\nqui aperis, et nemo claudit,<br \/>\nclaudis, et nemo aperuit:<br \/>\nveni, et educ vinctum<br \/>\nde domo carceris,<br \/>\nsedentem in tenebris,<br \/>\net umbra mortis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>O Key of David,<br \/>\nand scepter of the house of Israel,<br \/>\nyou open, and no one shuts,<br \/>\nyou shut, and no one opens:<br \/>\ncome, and lead the prisoner<br \/>\nfrom jail,<br \/>\nseated in darkness<br \/>\nand in the shadow of death.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of communal prayer at the community of Taiz\u00e9 (France) was the Advent season and the singing of the O Antiphons. The liturgy of the hours at Taiz\u00e9 was simple yet powerful in its beauty, always focused deeply on the psalms and silence and intercessory prayer. The O Antiphons, which we sang every Saturday evening during Advent (and often during the week too\u2026 playing freely with the liturgical rule assigned to them simply because we loved them so much!), embodied all three characteristics: like the psalms, they give us a language to speak to God and with one another, the particular musical setting we used in Taiz\u00e9 moved towards silence and, of course, at their heart the antiphons are profoundly intercessory: Come! <em>Viens, Seigneur, viens bientot!<\/em> We sang a version that was composed by one of the first brothers of the Community. I have unfortunately never seen it in print but a recording was made back in the 1950s and re-edited by the brothers more recently: <em>Taiz\u00e9 dans l\u2019\u00e9glise romane<\/em> (unfortunately only available in Europe or through Amazon France \u2013 label: Studio SM, ASIN: B0000262KY)<\/p>\n<p>My favorite verse was always the fourth one, <em>O Clavis David, O Key of David<\/em>! (for December 20). Rather than being frightened by this image of Christ as the holder of the keys, the one who opens and no one can close and who closes and no one can open, the image of Christ as Key of David instilled in me a far-reaching confidence. My faith was carried on this promise of the One who holds all things in his life. I am reminded of the verse from John 3:27, \u201cNo one can receive anything except what has been given from heaven.\u201d There is nothing that we have or could invent that might make Christ present but Christ comes and gives us everything through the Father and the Spirit\u2026 not only faith and all spiritual goods but all material goods as well. This Trinitarian image of Christ evokes adoration. We are totally dependent on this One who rules over all. And what a blessed dependence! For this One is described, not as the condemner or exterminator, but as the one who frees the prisoners, who calls out to the dead and leads them to life, who opens the eyes of the blind bringing them from darkness to light, whose heart is full of compassion and mercy, who is the Gospel coming to us in the forgiveness of sins and the restoration of community in God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than being frightened by this image of Christ as the holder of the keys, the one who opens and no one can close and who closes and no one can open, the image of Christ as Key of David instilled in me a far-reaching confidence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[464,1428,588,95],"class_list":["post-5896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-spirituality","tag-advent","tag-dirk-lange","tag-o-antiphons","tag-taize"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>O Clavis David: O Key of David - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/20\/o-clavis-david-o-key-of-david\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"O Clavis David: O Key of David - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rather than being frightened by this image of Christ as the holder of the keys, the one who opens and no one can close and who closes and no one can open, the image of Christ as Key of David instilled in me a far-reaching confidence.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/20\/o-clavis-david-o-key-of-david\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-12-20T06:05:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-12-21T10:49:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"90\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dirk G. 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