I remember singing this song one Advent more than 20 years ago at a service at Brent House, the Episcopal Campus Ministry of the University of Chicago. I must have been there for a Province V gathering of some kind.
Many years later, I ran across this icon from Br. Robert Lentz, OFM. Lentz writes about how the resurrected Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene and to the disciples in such a way that they did not recognize him. He goes on to ask whether we today would recognize Christ in others -- strangers, or the poor, or the naked, or the hungry. This powerful image depicts Christ as a Maasai warrior, surrounded by the evangelist seraphim we talked about yesterday, perparing to open the scroll with seven seals described in Rev. 5:5.
On Thursday mornings, we pray to God, in whom "we live, and move, and have our being" (BCP 100). We're not the only ones, though. Everyone belongs to God, and in God's good time that belonging will be made plain.
Hail, hail! Lion of Judah!
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