SPECULUM JUSTITIAE

SPECULUM JUSTITIAE[1]

All nature mirrors God;

His justice, His holiness;

all loveliness shows forth His limitless beauty,

but she, creation’s Queen, mirrors Him best.

Who has known purity

more pure than snow upon her mountain tops –

than lilacs white against her spring’s young green?

Hers is the height of peace above the stillest sky

bereft of cloud and bid,

the clearest blue.

All nature mirrors God,

but Mary, best.

Sister M Julian RSM

In: The Refuge of Beauty.  1954

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[1] Mirror of Justice