We have succumbed to Devil’s lie
And think we are like grass–
In daylight grows and then will die,
And all of it so fast.
But we have been mistaken here
For we forever live;
When we know this we shed our tears
And ask God to forgive.
For our hearts long to live with Him
Who sent His Son to us;
We’re born with Him in Bethlehem
Who sanctifies our dust.
Then we will on to glory go
As we are changed inside,
And ever after we will know—
In Him we all abide.
O Lord, make each a Noah now
As we begin anew;
Let us to Holy Spirit bow
And through Him worship You.
Each day may our own flood abate
And wash away our dross;
Then with your virtue satiate–
Renew what we thought lost.
May Ark of Church sail into dawn
As each day rises new,
And we know we to You belong–
As new as morning dew.
And when the time for each has come
To leave this earth behind,
May we know we’ve at last become
The one you’ve sought to find.
When Host is raised, I see a Burning Bush
In Spirit’s flame brings Him whom we consume,
Who in us will that serpent’s head now crush
And lift from hearts our Eve’s and Adam’s gloom.
With east wind comes to fan in us His flame
To light the world with heaven’s morning glow,
Began when with the Virgin’s “yes” He came
And brought to us Himself we all can know.
A fire within us purifies our hearts,
And conscience, reason in our image raised–
Were there in His creation from the start–
As old becomes a new creation saved.
He comes within the Host we now adore
With Father and His Spirit in fire poured.
Your winds Your messengers become
To send your love on angels’ wings,
So Mary can embrace your Son,
And heaven will her praises sing.
With “Yes” receives she Him who comes
To save us all from Satan’s lie,
And Satan’s cords ’round us undone,
As she sees Son with faithful eyes.
Through Jesus she adopts us all—
Her children to forever be—
Are rescued from Old Adam’s fall,
From sin and death to set us free.
To Jesus through His Mother go
All those who step through stable door,
Find Him whose love no boundaries knows:
In Him we’re rich with Spirits poor.
Your light with darkness will not mix,
For darkness is the Devil’s brew;
He tries on us his hellish tricks,
Prefers his gloomy, greyish stew.
Then we succumb to tempter’s voice
And fall into his greyish goo;
Damnation is our freedom’s choice–
Find we’re enslaved and choice we rue.
But Jesus comes and we can choose
His Cross to kill our sinful life;
His new life comes when life we lose,
And we see dawn brings us new light.
Now darkness in us fades away,
As light comes down and bids us rise;
For Jesus is for us the way
To Eden New, our paradise.
O Lord, come walk within my soul
And change me from the inside out,
That soul and body may be whole,
And I am one within, without.
May I not lack a living guide
Who lights my way each step by step,
Communes with me down deep inside,
Awakens virtue that had slept.
Through eyes are yours may I see truth
Unites me with your world around,
Perceive in me your timeless proof
That grace around us all abounds.
And when that time to all us comes
To walk with you through Heaven’s gate,
May I find that I have become
The one for whom our Father waits.
Oh, Holy Family, intercede,
Pray for us here below;
For human family Jesus bleeds,
Salvation we may know.
May we all be one family
Through Church, our Savior’s Bride;
Teach all of us humility,
In Jesus all abide.
May we forget about the past,
Forgive each other’s sins;
Let Son for us the future cast,
Make whole world new again.
Oh, Holy Family, draw us in
Through your own ceaseless prayers
To your new life that’s free from sin
And from the Devil’s snares.
St. Joseph, our protector be
And guard us with your hands,
That through each one of us all see
Messiah’s holy land.
Dear Mary, hold us in you lap,
Give us a mother’s love,
And when it’s time to wake from nap,
Show us the Spirit’s Dove.
Lord Jesus, God in human flesh,
Impart to us your Self–
Your Sacred Heart with our hearts mesh
In perfect human health.
Oh, Holy Family, pray that we
Be lost in Trinity;
There find ourselves with you–
Be free for all eternity.
That He who is and who was and who is to come, the Great I AM, would descend to
Earth–
That He would choose a humble virgin maid to give birth to Him in loving
obedience–
That He would bear our sins unto Himself to free us from our human plight–
That He would rise to new life and take us into Himself through Baptism–
That He would feed us with His own Body and Blood, Bread of Life, and Cup of
Salvation–
That His Holy Spirit would transform us to witness to His Way, Truth, and Life–
That He would bestow on us the greatest gift, eternal life with Him, His Mother
Mary, and all the saints and angels–
That we would be born with Him in Bethlehem?
The One who says “I am who am”
Descends to earth at Bethlehem.
Our maker is of woman born;
No longer is mankind forlorn,
For into man-made sinful waste
Comes He who is from our sin chaste,
To make us all to be like him
Who came to earth at Bethlehem.
A virgin maid with open arms
Here welcomes Him with heart so warm,
That all of us can know His love–
Descends to earth by Spirit’s dove;
For Mary is the first to bear
His life that now we all can share,
As all who are baptized in Him
Are born with Him in Bethlehem.
May we be born again with Jesus this Christmas, to live with Him forever!
What is this light that shines from stable door
To lift our spirits poor?
For by its light we see
Within that stable are our Holy Three,
A Proto-Icon of His Three above,
A mirror image of His perfect love.
Their open door now beckons all to come
That fam’lies may become
Again their likeness here,
As He from all our hearts casts out our fear,
And we, a New Creation, on earth born
With Him–light of the world on Christmas morn.
His yes came last and made them three,
Protects his Mary and her Son;
Together they form trinity,
A likeness of God’s Three-In-One.
His far-off gaze anticipates
The danger to those three will come;
Obeys his angel, never late,
‘Til safely in their Nazareth home.
In their home Mother Mary’s heart
Will order life around her Son:
A model meant for us from start,
When Eden family was begun.
Intended we to live as three,
Of father, mother, and our child;
Restored in Holy Family, see
Defeated there are Satan’s wiles.
PROCLAIMING TRUTH! 