THE IMMACULATE HEART

THE IMMACULATE HEART
Light is intensely the inhabitant

of this unsullied place of consecration,

the  Virgin’s heart.  Light is itself the air

and firmament and sea and foliage.

Her thoughts are Godward mirrors, one in their

orientation.

I enter this pure area where light

dwells by divine election, and I go

into the long noon of her adoration

where an eternal silence drifts like snow.

There are no words here save the Word of God,

pondered on without syllable or stir,

nor do I speak, save by determined presence.

I kneel down in the Virgin’s radiation

and gaze at God with her.

                                               

Jessica Powers (Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit OCD)

From: The House at Rest, page 47.

Published by the Carmelite Monastery, Milwaukee, WI. 

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