Hymn to the Holy Spirit

 

Spirit of God, on the waste and the darkness

hov'ring in power as creation began,

drawing forth beauty from clay and from chaos,

breathing God's life in the nostrils of man,

 

Come and sow life in the waste of our being,

pray in us, form us as sons in the Son,

Open our hearts to yourself, mighty Spirit,

bear us to life in the Three who are One. 

 

I think Angela would like this hymn to the Holy Spirit from Stanbrook Abbey with its focus on the creation of life out of chaos and darkness. Angela lived in a time which she described as "perilous and pestilential" and yet from that chaos she brought forth new life by being open to the action of the Holy Spirit in her heart.