On the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

Last updated on: December 31, 2015 at 7:56 pm by Karl Persson

On the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 2015-12-31T19:56:59-04:00 Karl Persson

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How best to let Him grow in us, we learn

From you, Theotokos, mother of our Lord;
How best to hold that hunger when we yearn
His birth in us, all waiting for His Word
Till sheer desire burst – you guide us right;
How best to pray when eagerness or swords
Divide our souls; how, in black night,
To love too rapt for more than gasping words,
You wake us! He touched Jacob on the thigh,
More intimately you, in whom God knit
Himself; still darkling let us lie,
Conceiving with you pondered wonders writ:
“I sought Him whom my body loved in shade,
In secret Whom my panting, piquéd, stayed.”

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