Eve of Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday

Rejoice, Jerusalem, with great joy,

for your Savior will come to you, alleluia.

Antiphon for Lauds from the Divine Office

for the Third Sunday of Advent

Everyone should open their heart very wide to joy, should welcome it and let it be buried very deeply in them; and they should wait the flowering with patience.  Of course, the first ecstasy will pass, but because in real joy Christ grows in us, the time will come when joy will put forth shoots and the richness and sweetness of the person who rejoiced will be Christ's flowering.  ~Caryll Houselander in The Reed of God

O Jesus living in Mary,

come and open our hearts

to the joy that is You!