Lumiere Charity - Marian Praise
Monday, October 7, 2019
MAY
MAY
If this were not your month, my Mother, child
and Church would be your witness that the stars
are virginal as water; earth is aisled
with prophecy, and night with filial rays
of bright apocalyptic stars.
But May
is more: May is the child-created land
where every wilted, homely daisy spray
is for a Queen; May is the gold command
of new encyclical
[ 1]
on not-new truth.
May is the sound of
Introit
-jubilee.
[2]
The unfulfilled fulfilled canon of youth;
is sleep at last; is joy in transiency
May hints eternity through blossom screen;
Mary is our folded hands in yours, dear Queen.
Sister Maura SSND
America.
1954
Used with permission
[1]
The name given to a letter which contains a papal pronouncement.
[2]
Introit: the entrance antiphon intoned before a priest celebrates the Eucharist.
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