Advent Patience
I wait
For peace on Earth,
Yet, I must know peace first
Within my soul.
Come Holy Spirit
Passing through my locked doors.
Christ’s Incarnation,
Anticipates Easter grace, when You entered the Upped Room through barred door.
Where my sin offers resistance May my sorrow open my heart to repentance and deep conversion of heart and life.
For the Christmas gift of Incarnation,
Is key and remedy.
Make passage
Into my soul.
For gathered with your Church,
I wait.
Litany of the Holy Name
https://youtu.be/ZEJddliapxY
Advent is upon my soul.
Divine gift of season,
I listen for the cry of a First Born Son,
Begotten before Time begun,
And laid in the Virgin’s womb.
I come to her,
Who is the Ark,
Your Mercy Seat.
Kneeling beside her
In these pregnant moments,
I lay my head upon her lap.
Her wonderment and awe
In steadfast contemplation,
Inspire angels’ songs.
I hear their reverent voices
In my night.
Their chorus bids me come.
Come to the stable of simplicity.
Leave the noisy city for a deserted place,
The Wilderness whose hidden way
Leads to the waiting manger,
Now, in expectant readiness,
For the Food that will feed
The hungry world.
My Advent prayer,
Come, O Holy Infant!
Come to my straw!
Joann Nelander
