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.
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