FIAT

FIAT *

"Fiat!" the holy Virgin said,

and divine and human natures wed

one spring when Nazarene flowers were fair

and barren earth of grace was bare.

That sweet contact of heaven and earth,

flowered into life and birth

at the maid's accepting word:

"Behold the handmaid of the Lord."

The immaculate, the undefiled

was by the Spirit fructified;

and from that pure and spotless womb

came the Root of Jesse's fairest bloom,

Which might on shining harps of gold

be in song most loudly told;

but no, in silent secrecy

God wrought that profound mystery.

By Mary's passive "Be it done"

God gave to earth His only son;

by her "Fiat" God in flesh was clad,

and Mary became the Mother of God.

Sister M Vida CSJ

Catholic School Journal. December 1958

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* Let it be done (unto me according to thy word). Mary's answer to the angel.