O Radiant Dawn,
splendor of light everlasting: Come and enlighten those who sit in darkness and
in the shadow of death.
For
those of us in the northern hemisphere today marks the shortest and darkest day
of the year. And as the funerals
continue to take place in Newtown/Sandy Hook this week so many in that
community sit in darkness and the shadow of death...waiting for light to
reenter their lives.
The
first sign of light is called twilight -
a liminal time of hope as the sky brightens, while we wait for the
star to rise above the horizon. Advent
is a season of waiting and hoping for a new light, a renewed energy, to break
into our darkness.
On
this fifth day of the O Antiphons we are reminded that it is the light of
Christ that will illuminate our truest self....a light that will wipe out our
darkness...a light that will warm our being.
O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
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