Advent Antiphon 2: "In Radiant Beauty"

Your light will come, Jerusalem; the Lord will dawn on you in radiant beauty.

You will see his glory within you.

This beautiful text is the Responsory that follows the Scripture reading in the Liturgy of the Hours Morning Prayer for Advent weekdays. It speaks, no, it positively sings, of vindication. Of light and beauty following darkness and -- and what? That's for you to answer, because each of us has our own answer. Perhaps some injustice or lovelessness under which we live. Perhaps that light has come for us, or is in the process of dawning, or is yet to come. But it will come, because we've been promised it by the Lord. And at last we'll stand in the spotlight: not the sort of spotlight that "tags" us as in a Facebook photo and separates us from everything, but the radiant beauty of the Lord. Read the "Benedictus," the Canticle of Zechariah, and you'll find a God that keeps his promises. The Lord will dawn. In radiant beauty!