Saturday, January 21, 2012

Found a wonderful blog the other day, check it out: Coffee and Canticles - The Divine Office in Your Life

The other is: The Cloistered Heart

Both are encouraging, and great food for the soul in this harried world. 

Fernando Ortega - Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Let all mortal flesh keep silence,

and with fear and trembling stand;

Ponder nothing earthly minded,

For with blessing is His hand,

Christ our God to earth descendeth,

Our full homage to demand.


King of kings, Yet born of Mary,

As of old earth He stood,

Lord of lords, In human vesture,

In the body and the blood;

He will give to all the faithful.

His own self for heavenly food.


Rank on rank the host of heaven

spreads its vanguard on the way,

As Light of light descendeth

from the realms of endless day,

That the powers of hell may vanish

as the darkness clears away.


At His feet the six-winged seraph,

Cherubim, With sleepless eye,

Veil their faces to His presence

as with ceaseless voice they cry:

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Alleluia! Lord Most High!