tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412029217961341476.post5148734344117245978..comments2023-04-20T14:56:30.205+00:00Comments on Mabi's World: Moving With The Changing Times!mabsfominyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13453839195587182151noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4412029217961341476.post-70118133909159237752009-11-26T08:29:47.139+00:002009-11-26T08:29:47.139+00:00ADVENT GREETINGS and BLESSINGS
THE CHRISTMAS SILE...ADVENT GREETINGS and BLESSINGS<br /><br />THE CHRISTMAS SILENCE<br />Here in the cloister they who seek discover<br />A wandered fragment of the Christmas silence<br />That hid itself from the disquieted earth:<br />The silence of the Virgin bending over<br />The little Uncreated Innocence<br />Upon the bed of a most hidden birth,<br />The silence that was Joseph's sacrament<br />Through years that were a threshold to this hour<br />And which was seed and stem to the white flower<br />That blossomed on his rod,<br />The speechlessness of the unlettered shepherds<br />Who stood amazed before the Lamb of God.<br />The angels sang at Christmas, but their music<br />Was like a stillness to the inner ear,<br />And soft as petals from a shaken bough.<br /><br />They who go walking in the Christmas silence<br />Through any season of the changing year<br />Come to a Man with peace upon his brow<br />And see the Mother and the Infant near.<br />This house, as once the Saint of Alcantara<br />Said of Teresa's, is the little hospice<br />Of Bethlehem.<br />Cloister or cave- its solitudes shall be<br />The dwelling of a human trinity<br />And they who enter learn a wordless language<br />And the Divine Untold addresses them.<br /><br />Yours' Faithfully,<br />Bro. PAUL YEMBEPAUL YEMBE@BAMBILI#number-disallowednoreply@blogger.com