The Second Sunday of Advent

Drop down dew, ye heavens from above says the old antiphon for Advent. At the moment it's not dew-fall but a full-fledged downpour going on. So no evening walk this evening.

In the spirit of the season, here's the Introitus for the second Sunday of Advent:



The text: Populus Sion, ecce Dominus veniet ad salvandas gentes: et auditam faciet Dominus gloriam vocis suæ in lætitia cordis vestri. Qui regis Israel, intende: qui deducis, velut ovem, Ioseph. Note: no Gloria Patri. So the context is the Pauline Rite. But the text and the melody are the same as in the traditional Roman Rite.


And here's a little something seasonable from The Fountain of Elias with a link to a little more.

And Fr Z explains the Pauline rite collect for the 2d Sunday of Advent. Not what's in your 1962 Missal, true, but it is from the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary.