Saturday, September 14, 2019

TO OUR LADY ON DECEMBER 8th




TO OUR LADY ON DECEMBER 8th [1]


Down in the courtyard
flakes fall on your shrine,
a white oasis in our winter.
Snowy pines enclose you
in a cathedral.
Everywhere darkness stretches
like an immense grave.
Stars hide
the sky is moonless.
But below in the courtyard
you burn like a candle,
your flame travelling light years
beyond the pines.

Sister M Lucina
                                                                                                                          Marian Library Collection




[1] 8 December: Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  This doctrine, defined by Pope Pius IX on 8 December 1854, teaches that Mary, after Adam and Eve, was the only human being to be born without the stain of original sin, inherited from our first parents.

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