In the year that King Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and His train filled the temple. Upon it stood the Seraphim: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered His face, and with two they covered His feet, and with two they flew. And they cried one to another, and said: “Holy, Holy, Holy the Lord God of Hosts: all the Earth is full of His glory.”Thanks be to God.
Dom Prosper Guéranger:
Such is the glory of the Lord in the highest heavens: who could see it and live? But now, contemplate this same Lord upon our Earth during the days which have dawned on us. The womb of a Virgin contains Him whom Heaven cannot contain. To Angels His beauty is visible, but it dazzles them not: to men, it is not even visible. Not a single voice is heard saying to Him those words of Heaven: “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God of Hosts!” The Angels no longer say of Him: “All the Earth is full of His glory,” for the Earth is witness of His abasement, and an abasement so abject and low that the inhabitants of the Earth do not even know it. At first, there was but one who knew the divine secret — the Virgin Mother. After her, Elizabeth was admitted to know that her cousin was Mother of God, and then, after the most painful and humiliating suspicions, the great mystery was revealed by an Angel to Joseph. So that only three on Earth know that God has come down upon it! Thus humbly did He re-enter the world after the sin of pride had driven Him out of it.
O GOD of the ancient Covenant, how great you are! And who would not tremble before you? O God of the new Covenant, how little you have made yourself! Who would not love you? Heal my pride, the source of all my sins! Teach me to value what you so much valued. By your Incarnation you do a second time create the world, and in this second creation, more excellent than the first, you work by silence and your triumph is won by self-annihilation. I wish to humble myself after your example and to profit by the lessons which a God came down so low to give me. Lay low all that is high and lifted up within me, my Jesus, for this is one of the ends of your Coming. I abandon myself to you, as to my Sovereign Master! Do with me and in me what you will.
