Solstice

We are anxious here to get back to more than 9 hours of daylight per day. I find it interesting, as we approach the 21st, that the collect for the week is imploring Jesus to "hear our prayers and to lighten the darkness of our hearts by Your gracious visitation." And I found it likewise interesting that the antiphon for the 21st is

O Dayspring, splendor of light everlasting:
Come and enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.