PRAYER God, we don’t yet have hold of it, but we can almost feel it— or at least the memory of it— the joy that our hearts so long for, the fulfilling of all our hopes, the completion of our loves, the perfection of beauty brought near Blessed are we who lift our eyes and recognize even from afar that it is you. It was you all along. Oh God of truth and light, of hope and joy, though we do not grasp it fully, our small steps to know the way we should go: It is the way of joy that delights in love. And in the meantime, we wait in expectation, for the refreshing you do, the gathering of all...

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