OUR LADY OF SCIENCE

OUR LADY OF SCIENCE

Our Lady is a geometric form,

a being perfect in the subtle mind;

Our Lady is a prism glass designed

to break the pattern swiftly to the Norm.

Our Lady is a lulling and a storm,

a portent of a vista yet unmined;

Our Lady is all elements combined,

a crucible of heart upstirred and warm.

Here where to one divine event the pace

of time is set; here where the cradled seed

is promise of the life, the final lace

of man to God - this is the prayer, the creed -

Lady of Science, of atom, of cell,

O come, to shape the place for Christ to dwell.

Sister Maura SSND

Where once the wild Arbutus grew. 1945

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