Friday 10 December 2021

Today is
Friday the 10th of December in the second week of Advent.
 
The Gaudete Ensemble conducted by Eamon Dougann sing 'veni Jesu' by Margaret Rizza. As we continue the Advent season of waiting, you might like to begin praying today by repeating the phrase, 'Come, Lord Jesus'.
 
Today’s reading is from the Prophet Isaiah.
 

Isaiah 48: 17-19
 
Thus says the Lord,
   your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
I am the Lord your God,
   who teaches you for your own good,
   who leads you in the way you should go.
O that you had paid attention to my commandments!
   Then your prosperity would have been like a river,
   and your success like the waves of the sea;
your offspring would have been like the sand,
   and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
   or destroyed from before me.
 
Regret.
  What does that feel like to you?
  That sense of ‘How could I have done things differently?’
  Could you name that sadness to God now?
 
How does God seem to say those words “O that you had paid attention to my commandments”?
  What feelings are there in that voice?
  What tone?
 
As you hear the passage again, remember that in this time of Advent we are waiting.
  Let that sense of waiting sit with you, in any way you are feeling.
  Can you embrace the wait?
 
Speak to God, who understands all our feelings, including those of regret, about what this waiting means to you.
 
O Wisdom
Lord and Ruler
Root of Jesse
Key of David
Rising Sun
King of the Nations
Emmanuel

Come, Lord Jesus