The Birth of Jesus

How beautiful is Jesus, Wisdom Incarnate.

He, like Wisdom whom he embodies, is the brightness of God, The unstained mirror of the Divine Reflecting all in God and God in all.

(Excerpt # 126, The Love of Eternal Wisdom: A Revisioning of Saint Louise DeMontfort's Contemplation on Divine Wisdom, Rabbi Rami Shapiro.  Book available through Wisdom House, $5 includes shipping.  Wisdom House, 229 E Litchfield Rd, Litchfield, CT 06759 / 860-567-3163 / rg@wisdomhouse.org)

Incarnate Wisdom is Born

Wisdom entered time as time:

Entered creation as creativity;

And walked among us as many, but none more filled with Her than Jesus

Of Whom the Ineffable said, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17).

To know Him as Wisdom

Is to know Him as the Apostles knew Him at His Transfiguration:

“Light radiant, sublime, immense, unlimited, Older than heaven and chaos” (Hymn of Transfiguration).

That is, they knew Him as Her, Eternal Wisdom,

She who is illustrious, high, immense, infinite, and older than the universe.

Blessed Christmas and holy peace to all.

(Excerpt #19, The Love of Eternal Wisdom: A Revisioning of Saint Louise DeMontfort’s Contemplation  on Divine Wisdom, Rabbi Rami Shapiro.  Book available through Wisdom House, $5 includes shipping. Wisdom House, 229 E Litchfield Rd, Litchfield, CT 06759 / 860-567-3163 / rg@wisdomhouse.org)

Song, Scripture, and Silence in the Manner of Taizè

The Advent retreat, "Song, Scripture, and Silence in the manner of Taizè," was led by Melinda and Bruce Gardiner, Dec. 2-4 in the Farm House at Wisdom House. Periods of teaching, silence, and chanting, using the music of the community of Taizè, France, provided the rhythm of the retreat.

Unthinkable

Unthinkable

 

The  angelic  body  bowed  low

 

in  adoration

 

Before  the  woman  soon-to-be-

 

with  child.

"Blessed,"  he  called  her.

"Why?"  she  asked.

"Chosen,"  was  his  answer.

He  waited.   She  wondered.

"How?  Not  now,"  she  said.

"God  changes  time,"  said

the  messenger.

"A  son  but  no  husband?

A  mother  before

being  a

wife?"

"Impossible!"  she  pro-

 

tested.

"Exactly,"  he  smiled.

                                                                               Jo-Ann Iannotti, OP

O WISDOM

COME AND TEACH US YOUR WAY

The beginning of the O Antiphons, December 17

Eternal Wisdom brings delight and satisfaction,
And the wise are filled with joy.
They do not condemn this world,
But seek to heal it.
Wisdom and those who teach Her
Pour out joy, sweetness, and peace into the world,
So that even in times of great trial the wise can say,
My joy is boundless even in the midst of my suffering ( II Corinthians 7:4)
Let Eternal Wisdom be your friend,
For there is “great delight in her friendship” (Wisdom 8:18)

(Excerpt #98, The Love of Eternal Wisdom: A Revisioning of Saint Louis DeMontfort’s Contemplation on Divine Wisdom, Rabbi Rami Shapiro. Book available through Wisdom House, $5 includes shipping.) Wisdom House, 229 E Litchfield Rd, Litchfield, CT 06759 / 860-567-3163/ rg@wisdomhouse.org