These are the golden evenings of Advent, when the nights in the northern hemisphere stretch towards their longest and the light bends and turns to lengthen our days. Our waiting peaks to a crescendo as we yearn to welcome Christmas, the Christ child: our true light from the true light.

Michael Morris leads us as we dwell in a treasure of the church: the hymn O Come O Come Emmanuel and their refrain, known as the O Antiphons, the lens through which we read Mary’s Magnificat. Today: O Key of David.