Unfold for me the mystery of grace

O Emmanuel      Artist:  Ansgar Holmberg

Here's a sonnet by Malcolm Guite:

SONNET | O EMMANUEL

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.

Sonnet | Malcolm Guite, Sounding the Seasons (Canterbury Press, 2012)

 

The last of the 8 O Antiphons for this year.