Advent, Day 23: He Comes

LOOK: Mary with the Midwives by Janet McKenzie

McKenzie, Janet_Mary with the Midwives — Janet McKenzie, *Mary with the Midwives*, 2003. Oil on canvas, 54 × 42 in. Collection of Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. [purchase reproduction]

LISTEN: “Mary” by Buffy Sainte-Marie, on Illuminations (1969)

Yonder I see a star
Oh, see how bright it’s burning
Joseph, my time is come
The Son of God is yearning
To come, to come

Ask the man for some room to spare
And a candle dimly burning
Joseph, my time is come
The Son of God is yearning
To come, to come

Pain of birth is surely great
And yet my fate’s been told me
Do I see an angel bright
Descending to behold me
He comes, he comes, he comes