I will be out of town for the weekend visiting family. But I did not want to leave without a reminder to beg Mary our Mother for peace, on her beautiful feast day.

Shadowless
“Ne timeas Maria invenisti enim gratiam apud Deum.” Luke 1:30

The utter Utterance of Adonai
from all eternity
Desired to utter His Word to earth
in profound obscurity.
Down through long ages of prophet and king,
He tended vine and shoot,
In the fullness of time preparing a womb
to bear such glorious fruit.

Her soul like sun-splashed crystal
in the shadowless noon of day,
Her eyes ever on her Master’s hand,
her feet ever in His way.
Her docile heart and God’s own love
beat always as if one;
Such a living flame alone
could bear the heartbeat of the Son.

The Most High sent His messenger
to this humble Nazarene;
All of Heaven held its breath,
looking down upon the scene:
From the house and line of David,
a maiden of unprecedented grace
By her resolute, valiant, radical “yes”
gave to her God a face.