Advent thoughts of Saint Anselm, bishop:
Insignificant man, escape from your everyday business for a short while, hide for a moment from your restless thoughts. Break off from your cares and troubles and be less concerned about your tasks and labors. Make a little time for God and rest a while in him.
Lord most high, what shall this exile do, so far from you? What shall your servant do, tormented by love of you and cast so far from your face?
Lord, you are my God and you are my Lord, and I have never seen you. You have made me and remade me, and you have given me all the good things I possess, and still I do not know you. I was made in order to see you, and I have not yet done that for which I was made.
Lord, how long will it be? Look upon us, Lord, hear us and enlighten us, show us your very self. Restore yourself to us that it may go well with us whose life is so evil without you.
Teach me to seek you, and when I seek you show yourself to me.
Help all mankind, Lord, in your loving mercy, to be near to those who seek you without knowing it.
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