HAIL, FULL OF GRACE (being a short theological dissertation on the fullness of grace)

HAIL, FULL OF GRACE

(being a short theological dissertation on the fullness of grace)

In fullness is no static state of being

nor yet suffices that container be

enlarged for more grace by each grace's giving

its whole return in love to graced design.

By more expansion of you, Mary, danger

of overspill grows greater with each pouring

from zest of God's exuberant donation

of grace where grace is fast absorbed and spent.

We come to save you, inundated Mother,

from floods of grace high rising in your soul.

Here with cupped hearts we kneel to beg a drenching.

Hail, Mary, full of grace, spill grace on us. Amen.

Mother M Francis PCC

Summon Spirit's Cry. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.

(c) 1996. Mother M Francis PCC. All rights reserved.

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From 'A Silence full of bells'