"Antiphon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the psalm, when the response of the antiphon came—"Et lux perpetua luceat eis"—the children's voices broke into a sad, silken cry, a sharp sob, trembling on the word "eis," which remained suspended in ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
... is here, and at Vespers we feel the nearness of the great Coming. "Lift up your heads: behold your redemption draweth nigh," is the antiphon for the last psalm. "To-morrow shall be done away the iniquity of the earth," is the versicle after the Office Hymn. And before and after the "Magnificat" the Church sings: "When the sun shall have risen, ye shall see the King of kings coming forth from the Father, as a bridegroom ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... loetificat juventutem meam,' gabbled Vincent, who, squatting on his heels, mumbled the responses of the antiphon and the psalm, while watching La Teuse as ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola |
