To His Gift, “Yes”

Please, Jesus, may I say to your gift, “Yes,”
And take Your Mother to me as my own—
Through her to know the love of Three now shown
In Mary’s full response with faithfulness
Through human nature Spirit chose to bless
With freedom to respond by seed was sown
In Anna’s womb, where Father makes choice known
As Eve’s first nature raised by His caress.
Please, Mary, pray that I to Him respond
With human nature Jesus takes from you,
As Nazareth, Gethsemane in me
Unite, and I say “Yours, not mine, be done”
As grace through Cross creates my heart anew,
And with you now I fully human be.