OUR LADY WALKS ALONE

OUR LADY WALKS ALONE

Our Lady walked alone

from the beginning,

always alone.

And yet,

until He came,

her dark eyes veiled

the anguish of aloofness.

Even in the Afterward

only John saw,

before Communion[1],

the humble, hungered longing in her glance.

Sister M Julian RSM

  In: The Refuge of Beauty.  1954

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[1] Shortly before dying on the Cross, the Lord Jesus Christ asked the apostle John to take care of the Blessed Virgin.  The poet suggests that it would therefore have been St John who would have given Holy Communion to Christ’s mother and who would thus have observed the yearning on her face as she received the Body and Blood of her divine Son.