Chiesa San Francesca Romana all'Ardeatina

This morning I attended a First Communion for two of my students at a neighborhood church.

Chiesa San Francesca Romana all'Ardeatina

via Luigi Capucci, 15 (zona Ardeatina)

Architect: Giuseppe Zander, 1936

 

Monday - Fourth Week of Advent

Chiesa San Corbiniano

Saint  Corbiniano

Via Braies 29, (Infernetto/Ostia)
Architect: Umberto Rive, 2012

Collect for Christmas

O God, you have caused this holy night to shine with the
brightness of the true Light: Grant that we, who have known
the mystery of that Light on earth, may also enjoy him
perfectly in heaven; where with you and the Holy Spirit he
lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

Sunday - Fourth Week of Advent

Chiesa San Carlo Borromeo
Saint Charles Borromeo
via Amadìldi (quartieri di Fonte Laurnetina)
Architect: Antonio Monestiroli, 2012

O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster,
exspectatio Gentium, et Salvator earum:
veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster.

O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver,
the hope of the nations and their Saviour:
Come and save us, O Lord our God.

O Antiphon for December 23

Saturday - Third Week of Advent

Chiesa di San Pio da Pietrelcina
Father Pio

via Paollo Stoppa (zona Acilia sud)
Architects: Alessandro & Valentino Anselmi, Valerio Palmieri, 2010

      

O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum,
lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum:
veni, et salva hominem,
quem de limo formasti.

O King of the nations, and their desire,
the cornerstone making both one:
Come and save the human race,
which you fashioned from clay.

O Antiphon for December 22

Friday - Third Week of Advent

Chiesa Santo Volto di Gesu

Holy Face of Jesus

via della Magliana, (quartiere Portuense)

Architects: Piero Sartogo and Nathalie Grenon, 2006

O Oriens,
splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae:
veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.

O Morning Star,
splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness:
Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.

O Antiphon for December 21

Thursday - Third Week of Advent

Chiesa Santa Maria Stella Dell'Evangelizzazione
Saint Mary Star of Evangelization

Via Amsterdam, 5 (quartiere Torrino)
Architect: Roberto Panella, 2006

O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel;

qui aperis, et nemo claudit;
claudis, et nemo aperit:
veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris,
sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis.

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.

O Antiphon for December 20

Wednesday - Third Week of Advent

Chiesa Santa Maria Margarita Alacoque
Saint Margaret Mary Alcoque

Via Michele Pantanella, 5 (zona Tor Vergata)
Architect: Italo Rota, 2005

 

O Radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum,
super quem continebunt reges os suum,
quem Gentes deprecabuntur:
veni ad liberandum nos, jam noli tardare.

O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples;
before you kings will shut their mouths,
to you the nations will make their prayer:
Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.

O Antiphon for December 19