MAGNIFICAT IN CRUCE

MAGNIFICAT IN CRUCE*

Three vultures rend the blue Magnificat

that breaks above the cross we grow upon:

blind pride, replumed, and savage might have sought

stability in nails that know the bone;

and by these wounds rich, empty self would claim

the very hour when hunger is fulfilled

and, blessed from end to end in Wisdom's Name,

deep in the Father's kiss lone fear is stilled.

But, timed to Seven Words,* these three husks fall

amid the skulls that missed the needle's eye,

while greening blade the least, full ear, and all

rise in the harvest of a mother's cry -

our Fiat's flesh and blood, our last accord -

"My very soul doth magnify the Lord!"

Sister Thomas Aquinas OP

Spirit. July 1935

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Magnificat in Cruce - (My soul) proclaims the greatness of the Cross

* Refers to Jesus' words from the cross