SEDES SAPIENTIAE[1]
Lady,
under many names you are entreated
by
us this side of heaven who come praying
of
you succour in such trials as have been meted
to
us – to one, this; to another, that; laying
before
your wisdom, our unwisdom; before
your
grace, our lack of it; by you came
wisdom
into the lost world – and more –
into
the lost heart. Therefore your name,
O
Seat of Wisdom. We have learning
but
by your grace, bring to our minds this unknown,
this
forgotten wisdom, that we may light burning
lamps
to her; that raising in your name a stone
altar,
we may raise our hearts also to you, who are
the
steadfast undoer of Eve’s folly and our folly.
Bright
Star.
Sister Maris Stella CSJ
Frost for Saint Brigid and other
poems. 1949. New York: Sheed & Ward
Used with permission.
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