Jan 1, 2024
O bishops and doctors,
O brothers so united in Christ,
united in your desire
to find His wisdom
and live His virtue,
for you what mattered
but to be like Christ?
All you would have given up
to find His way;
nothing of this world
did you wish
but to leave it behind.
One in heart and mind,
one in word and work
and in the food of which you partook…
how blessed it is
when men live as brothers,
when nothing they desire
but the other’s good –
teach us this way of union
in the love of God.