O Emmanuel, king and lawgiver, desire of the nations,
Savior of all people:
Come and set us free, Lord our God.
Emmanuel is God with us, in all that we go through, in our joys and sorrows.
As monks it is our duty and privilege to become attuned to the Lord's continual advent. For if it is true, as we believe, that one day
the Lord will return once and for all to gather us all together and bring us
home to the Father in the end time, we also know that his coming toward us is a
relentless, already-happening reality. And we are meant to be experts-- experts at waiting,
attentiveness; experts at emptiness, the emptiness that is constantly clearing a space for him. In Christ Jesus, our Emmanuel, God has
made a giant leap towards us. Jesus our Lord is always drawing near. And attentiveness to his presence is the secret we were
made for.
Photograph by Brother Brian.
Photograph by Brother Brian.
