Comfort my people and console them, says your God.
A voice cries out: In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make a straight path in the desert for our God.
Let every valley be filled in and every mountain and hill be made low.
Uneven ground will be made smooth and the rugged places will become a plain.
Climb to the top of a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings.
Cry out as loudly as you can, O Jerusalem, herald of good news.
Isaiah 40:1,3+4,9
Prepare the way in good time for the great guest
and prepare yourselves with joy, renounce all that he hates.
Make even every path, the valleys all heightened,
Make low what still is standing,
Make straight that which is bent.
(Advent hymn)
Sr. Aquilina
Photo: Provincial Archive Limburg
