Sunday, December 22, 2019

Quote of the Day (St. John Henry Newman, on Advent)


“Christ is coming!—from thy bed,
Earth-bound soul, awake and spring,—
With the sun new-risen to shed
Health on human suffering.”—Englist theologian, poet, educator and memoirist St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890), “Advent-Lauds” (translated from a 5th-century hymn, from his Verses on Various Occasions (1880)

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