'O Sapientia'

We woke up to another slight dusting of snow, nothing like elsewhere in the country.
Dawn was a sickly band of yellow under a dark louring cloud, and it was still almost dark after Lauds at 7.30am. I'll be glad when sunrise starts getting later again (not until about two weeks after the solstice). But the sun did manage to come out, and by lunchtime the snow had mostly cleared.

The biomass boiler has continued to throw up occasional 'overfill of combustion chamber' faults, and an engineer from the installers came today and made some tweaks to the set-up, which should solve the problem. The boiler had to be cool, and he was due at 8.30am, so we switched it off after Compline. But that gave us a chance to test whether the LPG had been fixed and was capable of fulfilling its back-up role... which it was.

Today is 'O Sapientia', as we enter the last seven days of Advent and start singing the Great O Antiphons with the Magnificat. The O Antiphons are most well known as the source material for the hymn 'O come, O come, Emmanuel'. Each one is a title for the Messiah, and each draws partly on the prophecy of Isaiah of the coming of the Messiah. The first letters of the titles taken backwards form an acrostic - "Ero Cras" - which translates to "Tomorrow, I will come".

Latin:
O Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti,
attingens a fine usque ad finem,
fortiter suaviterque disponens omnia:
veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae.

English:
O Wisdom, coming forth from the mouth of the Most High,
reaching from one end to the other mightily,
and sweetly ordering all things:
Come and teach us the way of prudence.