December 23, 2005

My Journey to God

Come, Lord Jesus

Come into our hearts and homes this Christmas with the beauty of your presence and the tenderness of your grace.

Come into the joys of this season and touch them with the radiance of heaven.

Come into our sorrows with your compassion and your strength as once you came on earth to share our burdens.

Come into the hearts of those we love and turn them to you as their Star of guidance and holiness for the journey of life.

Come into your Church as its Divine Center of unity and the inspiration of every good work.

Come into our world and bring us your peace.

Let us listen to the longings of our hearts, to the longings of the Church, to the longings of all people of good will, to the longing of the Spirit within us.

With Mary, the Expectant Virgin, and with all the prophets of the season, let us keep vigil through the long winter nights with our lamps alight for the coming of the Lord and hasten his arrival with our prayer.

Come, Lord Jesus.

Amen.

By Carmel of Terre Haute

(This Advent prayer written by the Discalced Carmelite Sisters of the Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute was printed on a card announcing their Christmas Novena held from Dec. 16-24.)

 

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