Category: Novena

Our eyes search to see as you saw. Our hearts yearn to know as you knew… Be light for our darkness. Be dawn for our new day. ∼ Raphael Consedine, pbvm: Presentation – Mary of the Dawn This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us.   No other […]
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And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1   To Our Lady Mother of all that is good, of the light that is always touching the world blessing all things, the efficient system of each leaf, the dark impasses of the lines of my […]
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Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother… John 19:25   Pieta A year ago you came Early into the light. You lived a day and night, Then died; no-one to blame.   Once only, with one hand, Your mother in farewell Touched you. I cannot tell, I cannot understand.   A thing so dark and […]
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The mother is Jesus was there… “Do whatever he tells you.” John 2:1,5   Cana It might have been a neurotic’s paradise, With all that water there for endless washing. The catering shaky, and most of us wondering What sort of promise such a beginning held For the couple’s days and years. And then the wine […]
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He then went with them and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart. Luke 2:51   The Gift Be still, my soul and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and […]
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Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “You see this child: he is destined for the fall and for the rising of many…, and a sword will pierce your own soul too…” Luke 2: 34-35   The Second Music   Now I understand that there are two melodies playing, one below the other, one […]
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…the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to a son… Luke 2:6,7   One has to think of him as her son: looking very like her, with her walk, her gestures, her patterns of thought, many of her tastes and then remember that this is not some fine mask for […]
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