<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Catherine.<div>This is beautiful.</div><div>Thank you.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 23, 2024, at 09:42, Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>A friend sent this to me and I thought you’d like it too. <br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="auto">Happy Christmas and a Blessed, Peaceful, and Healthy New Year, ❤️Catherine</div><div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div lang="EN-CA" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - an Advent Prayer - <i>by Mary Ann Barrett, OP<u></u><u></u></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Come…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Into our world where distress is so pronounced.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Come…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Bring your healing to the wounds of division.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Come…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Embolden us with your sense of and sensitivity for justice.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Come…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Bind our hearts to beat to the rhythm of plowshares.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Come…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Send us to places and peoples without hope.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Come…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Help us enlarge our tables for strangers and guests.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Come…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">En-able us to imitate the beauty and wisdom of earth and her creatures.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Come…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Free us to be a voice for life – in song and art,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">With words and dreams and actions.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Rejoice!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Into our darkness and shadows comes light<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Into our disorder and chaos comes harmony<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Into our death and diminishment comes resurrection</span></p></div></div><div lang="EN-CA" link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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