Saturday, August 12, 2017

SERENADE


SERENADE

Your name more fragrant, Mary,
than sage in summer showers,
bounds my far horizons,
rims my fickle skies
as mountains gay with springtime,
garlanded with blossoms,
as mountains gashed with crimson
when lingering summer dies.

My songs are sea gulls, Mary,
wheeling around your beauty,
your beauty cool and gold-flecked
as glades where aspens grow...
tranquil as the dreaming
clouds on mistry summits,
fair as aged cedars
hushed and heaped with snow.

Sister M Philip
In: Robert. 1944



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Monday, August 7, 2017

RETURN FROM CALVARY



RETURN FROM CALVARY
Your steps were slow and you leaned heavily
on John and Magdalene. The knife plunged deep
into your heart denied you tears to weep,
nor could you realise that Calvary
with all its pain was awful certainty
and not a dream. Had He not lain asleep
within your arms; was He not ours to keep
for time and all God's long eternity?

You could not think of Him as being dead,
the fires of His life so quickly burned
to ash and vision fled from out His eyes,
but suddenly you saw His blood still red
upon the road and looking back discerned
three crosses black against the sombre skies.

Sister M Gustave OP. Sign. May 1936
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O MATER DULCIS


O MATER DULCIS 

In Nazareth, I'd peep some day,
to learn your rare unwonted way
to watch you, with your boy at play,
Dulce ridentem.

At even I'd love to linger too,
hearing old mysteries made new,
to learn true pondering from you
Dulce loquentem.

And dare I ask that it might be
my grace to feel awake in me
that love, which held thee by the tree,
Dulce dolentem?

Sister Grace RSU
America. 6 December 1924

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O Mater Dulcis - O sweet Mother
Dulce ridentem - Sweetly laughing
Dulce loquentem - Sweetly speaking
Dulce dolentem - Sweetly mourning
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WINTER SONG


WINTER SONG

Out of stillness deep as sunken stone
light comprehends the night's intended drift:
clear stars that find their certitude alone
strike glory from the planets until the after-image
widens to the stirred pool's rim.
Oh lightly rides the heavens' weight
(as Spirit broods and starbirds skim),
where waters sing under their burden of delight
the Virgin Mother's flowering.

Sister M Gilbert SNJM
Commonweal. 29 December 1961
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REMEMBER (MEMORARE)


REMEMBER (MEMORARE)

Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary
That never was it known
That anyone who came to thy protection, 
Implored thy help, or sought thy intercession
Was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee,
O Virgin of virgins, my mother,
To thee I come,
Before thee I stand,
Sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate,
Despise not my petitions
But in thy mercy hear and grant my prayer.
Amen.
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LITANY IN HONOUR OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY


LITANY IN HONOUR OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Lord have mercy on us                              
Lord have mercy on us
Christ have mercy on us                           
Christ have mercy on us
Lord have mercy on us                            
Lord have mercy on us
Christ hear us                                          
Christ graciously hear us

God the Father of heaven                        
Have mercy on us
God the Son, Redeemer of the World      
Have mercy on us
God the Holy Spirit                                  
Have mercy on us
Holy Trinity one God                                
Have mercy on us

Holy Mary
Pray for us
Holy Mother of God
Pray for us
Holy Virgin of virgins
Pray for us
Mother of Christ
Pray for us
Mother of the Church
Pray for us
Mother of Divine Grace
Pray for us
Mother most pure
Pray for us
Mother most chaste
Pray for us
Mother inviolate
Pray for us
Mother undefiled
Pray for us
Mother most amiable
Pray for us
Mother most admirable
Pray for us
Mother of Good Counsel
Pray for us
Mother of our Creator
Pray for us
Mother of our Saviour
Pray for us
Virgin most prudent
Pray for us
Virgin most venerable
Pray for us
Virgin most renowned
Pray for us
Virgin most powerful
Pray for us
Virgin most merciful
Pray for us
Virgin most faithful
Pray for us
Mirror of justice
Pray for us
Seat of wisdom
Pray for us
Cause of our joy
Pray for us
Spiritual vessel
Pray for us
Vessel of honour
Pray for us
Singular vessel of devotion
Pray for us
Mystical rose
Pray for us
Tower of David
Pray for us
Tower of ivory
Pray for us
House of gold
Pray for us
Ark of the Covenant
Pray for us
Gate of heaven
Pray for us
Morning star
Pray for us
Health of the sick
Pray for us
Refuge of sinners
Pray for us
Comfort of the afflicted
Pray for us
Help of Christians
Pray for us
Queen of angels
Pray for us
Queen of patriarchs
Pray for us
Queen of prophets
Pray for us
Queen of apostles
Pray for us
Queen of martyrs
Pray for us
Queen of confessors
Pray for us
Queen of virgins
Pray for us
Queen of all saints
Pray for us
Queen conceived without original sin
Pray for us
Queen assumed into heaven
Pray for us
Queen of the most holy Rosary
Pray for us
Queen of peace
Pray for us

Lamb of God Who take away the sins of the world
Spare us O Lord
Lamb of God Who take away the sins of the world
Graciously hear us O Lord
Lamb of God Who take away the sins of the world
Have mercy on us
Pray for us O holy Mother of God
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ

LET US PRAY:

Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we your servants may enjoy perpetual health of mind and body and by the glorious intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, may we be delivered from present sorrow and enter into the joy of eternal happiness through Christ our Lord. AMEN.
                              



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HAIL THOU STAR OF OCEAN (AVE MARIS STELLA)


HAIL THOU STAR OF OCEAN
(AVE MARIS STELLA)

Hail thou star of ocean
Portal of the sky
Ever Virgin Mother
Of the Lord most high
Oh by Gabriel's Ave
Uttered long ago
Eva's name reversing
Established peace below

Break the sinner's fetters
Light on darkness pour
All our ills expelling
Every bliss implore
Show thyself a mother
Offer Him our sighs
Who for us Incarnate
Did not thee deny

Virgin of all Virgins
To thy shelter take us
Gentlest of the gentle
Chaste and gentle make us
Still as on we journey
Help our weak endeavour
Till with thee and Jesus
We may live forever

Through the highest heaven
To the almighty Three
Father, Son and Spirit,
One same glory be.

Amen
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