The Chapel of the Incarnate Word

O root of Jesse, standing an ensign of the people, before whom even kings silent will remain, whom the Gentiles, too, shall beseech, come...

O Lord and leader of the house of Israel, who once appeared to Moses and spoke to him from a bush aflame, and on the peak of Sinai gave...

O Wisdom eternal, proceeding from the mouth of the Most High, you reach from end to end and order all things mightily and sweetly; come...

The Christmas novena, as it is now known, begins on December 16, nine days before Christmas, and ends on Christmas Eve. The novena is a...