Ignatian
Spirituality In Music
Come, We Seek Your Face
Creation is a sign of our own re-creation, our innate call to fulfill a holy purpose, and our longing to return to the one who loved us first. Four verses with simple, flowing refrain. Especially appropriate for Advent. SMATB
Lyric Outtake
Mountains reaching ever
to the love of blazing sky.
Water seeps and tumbles
to the depths where glory lies.
Their aged quest the sign of earth’s
unspoken prayer:
Refrain:
Come, We Seek Your Face.
Come, we pray.
To the heart, the mind,
the will of your people.
Come. We seek your face.
Quotes to Consider
"… even before we have moved in search of God, God has come in search of us." --Abraham Joshua Heschel (Healey MSW, 25)
"Creation is not a one-time activity… We are continually being formed into God's image and likeness… We are in a constant state of becoming because God lingers within us" (Conroy, 11).
"I adhere to the creative power of God: I coincide with it; I become not only its instrument but its living extension… He is at the tip of my pen, my spade, my brush, my needle--of my heart and of my thought." --Teilhard De Chardin (Healey MSW, 103)
"If you return to the grace of the Image with which you were informed from the beginning, you will have all you seek in yourselves. For the Godhead is purity, freedom from passion, and separation from all evil. If therefore these things be in you, God is indeed in you." --St. Gregory of Nyssa (Dupré, 52).
"When the Word goes away, then, the one and continuous cry of the soul, its endless desire, is a repeated 'Return' until he comes… And perhaps he has withdrawn so that he might the more eagerly be called back and embraced more closely." --St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Dupré, 128)
You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. --St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions.
Scriptures for Meditation
| Ps 139 | You have searched me an know me |
| Isa 43: 1-7 | I formed you, call you by name, you are precious |
| Eph 1: 3-14 | In the fullness of time—all things gathered in Christ |
| Eph 4: 17-24 | Clothe yourself with the new self |
| Mt 18: 3, 4 | Unless you change and become like children |
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