Destroy the Devil’s stronghold in our hearts
That Church may be a castle for Your love
Where angels may descend and then embark
To conquer hearts with Your strength from above.
May Jacob’s ladder end in castle’s keep
As angels up and down that ladder go
And then fly over earth to feed Your sheep
With truth from You as love within them grows.
May all who come to castle on You feed,
Who give Your Body, Blood to all of us
And meet on earth our greatest human need:
To stand at ladder’s foot with Mary’s trust.
We see that Jacob’s ladder is Your cross
Where Mary waits for each of us to come,
As worldly gain we count as so much dross
When our hearts have with hers as one become.
Then we on wings of Spirit ladder climb–
At top step from earth’s tomb through open door,
We breathe Your Spirit’s air in heaven’s clime
And live with Trinity forever more.
PROCLAIMING TRUTH! 