SANCTA
MARIA, MATER DEI[1]
Ah, but Our Lady’s holiness was there,
its quality so fair
He had not found the like in seraphim –
and holiness to Him,
even the least, was fairer far
than star transcending splendrous star.
None may gainsay what Luke has said:
that He had but a manger-bed,
but we may meditate how she
who laid Him there ecstatically
shed her dear radiance over all:
angel and ox, rafter and stall.
Sister
M Paulinus
America. 22 December 1951
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