Today we can start following the Christmas story in real time.
By tradition the Holy Family, Joseph with pregnant Mary, are leaving Nazareth for Bethlehem.
Every day until 23 December there is a special antiphon before and after the Magnificat at evening prayer or evensong. Listen online from Canterbury Cathedral at 5.30pm.
This can also be heard as the acclamation before the Gospel at Mass.
Our Lady of the O – Advent to Easter
[…] the Virgin Mary is often referred to as Mary of the O because this is the second day of the O Antiphons heard at evening […]