A just man honored from above,
A silent man, a man of love,
On exile’s road, in family home.
A man who acted on the word,
He carried out what he had heard:
He took the Mother and he Child
From scorner’s stone and tyrant wild.
A man of faith, a man of trust,
He bore whatever loss he must
To keep the Mother and he Son
Until his life’s great work was done.
We praise you, God of majesty,
One holy, threefold Mystery;
Be Father, Son, and Spirit blest
By all who share in ev’ning’s rest.
(Sr. Genevieve Glen, OSB, Abbey of Saint Walburga, Virginia Dale, CO, 1998.)