Pray for your own children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and all children of promise to conclude your Advent reflections. Close by singing “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming.”
Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming,
From tender stem hath sprung.
Of Jesse’s lineage coming
As seers of old have sung.
It came, a blossom bright,
Amid the cold of winter,
When half spent was the night.
Isaiah ‘twas forefold it,
The Rose I have in mind,
With Mary we behold it,
The Virgin Mother kind.
To show God’s love aright,
She bore to us a Savior,
When half spent was the night.