Merton on the Morning Star’s Promise

Abraham Bloemaert, Adoration of the Magi (1624)

Tu qui sedes in tenebris spe tua gaude: orta stella matutina, sol non tardabit.

You who sit in the darkness keeping your hope alive: the rise of the morning star, the sun shall not be slow.

–Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (1961)(motto, from a Gregorian chant of the 12th century)(S.H. transl.)