Fountain of Love! Thyself true God!
Who through eternal days
From Father and from Son hast flowed
In uncreated ways!
O Majesty unspeakable!
O Person all divine!
How in the Threefold Majesty,
Doth Thy Procession shine!
Fixed in the Godhead’s awful light
Thy fiery Breath doth move;
Thou art a wonder by Thyself
To worship and to love!
Proceeding, yet of equal age
With those whose love Thou art;
Proceeding, yet distinct, from those
From whom Thou seem’st to part.
An undivided Nature shared
With Father and with Son;
A Person by Thyself; with Them
Thy simple essence One;
Bond art Thou of the other Twain!
Omnipotent and free!
—Frederick Faber, The Holy Spirit
BEHOLD, my God and my all! What more do I
wish for; what greater happiness can I desire? O sweet and delicious word! But
sweet only to him who loves it, and not to the world or the things that are in
the world.
O Light eternal, surpassing all created
brightness, flash forth the lightning from above and enlighten the inmost
recesses of my heart. Cleanse, cheer, enlighten, and vivify my spirit with
all its powers, that it may cleave to You in ecstasies of joy.
-Imitation of Christ
