For the benefit of those readers of Per Crucem ad Lucem whose minds at this time of year are somewhat unlubricated, or on whom my subtleties more often than not simply carry through to the keeper, the previous three posts – poems by RS Thomas; ‘The Word’, ‘The Empty Church’ and ‘The Coming’ – form a triptych of Advent movement that I thought worked nicely together during this last week of Advent.