This means: O Key of David. It is a title for the Messiah from the Old Testament. It is the O Antiphon for today. Here is the Full Antiphon. Use it in your prayer today:
O Key of David and sceptre of the House of Israel;
you open and no one can shut;
you shut and no one can open:
Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house,
those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.
peace
The Oldest Altarpiece of St Francis
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St Francis of Assisi died late in the evening on October 3, 1226, at the
age of about 44, and was canonized in July of 1228 by Pope Gregory IX. His
order w...
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