{"id":1193,"date":"2020-12-23T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T09:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2023-12-23T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T16:42:44","slug":"o-emmanuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"O Emmanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

December 23rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liturgy of the Word<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24
Luke 1:57-66<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

O Emmanuel, king and lawgiver
desire of the nations,
Saviour of all people.
Come and set us free, Lord our God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O Emmanuel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O come, O come, and be our God-with-us
O long-sought With-ness for a world without,
O secret seed, O hidden spring of light.
Come to us Wisdom, come unspoken Name
Come Root, and Key, and King, and holy Flame,
O quickened little wick so tightly curled,
Be folded with us into time and place,
Unfold for us the mystery of grace
And make a womb of all this wounded world.
O heart of heaven beating in the earth,
O tiny hope within our hopelessness
Come to be born, to bear us to our birth,
To touch a dying world with new-made hands
And make these rags of time our swaddling bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malcolm Guite<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to Malcolm Guite read his sonnet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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O Emmanuel; a final advent sonnet, and a hidden message<\/a><\/blockquote>