For we know that
if our earthly home, that is a tent
is dismantled,
we have a building from God,
a house
not made with hands
eternal
in the heavens.
For also
we groan in this one
longing to put on
our dwelling from heaven.
If indeed having been clothed
we will not be found naked.
For being in the tent
we groan, burdened down
because we do not want to be
unclothed but clothed
so that mortality will be swallowed up
by life.
But the one who prepared us
for this very purpose
is God.
who gave to us
the down payment of the Spirit.
Grant, Lord,
that we may hold to you without parting,
worship you without wearying,
serve you without failing;
faithfully seek you,
happily find you,
and forever possess you,
the only God,blessed now and for ever.
Amen
St Anselm