Category: Marian Poetry

Lord, when I say, “Not mine but Yours,”
     My will has been transformed,
And in Your strength I can endure
     In me what is a thorn. 

Desires of mine seek here to thwart
     Your will that’s for my good;
You virtues, vices in me sort
     With hand holds holy Rood.

You teach me to with Mary say
     “I am the Lord’s handmaid.”
Then You with me will have Your way
     And vices in me fade.

I journey on and come to know
     Your love through family here,
And in their love You to me show
     Your future for us there.

For heaven is our destiny,
     Our home prepared by You;
With Mary there we bend our knee,
     Our virtues fully viewed. 

He came to make His home in Mary’s “Yes”–
Forever dwells with us in her consent–
A “Yes” in which all earth forever blessed,
And in her He will never strike His tent.

He’s come to give us Mary’s freedom now—
Was lost so long ago in Eden land
When Eve before the serpent her head bowed
And through her death came to our human band.

Yet, Mary’s “Yes” is here to make us free
To give consent with her for Him to come
And enter us when we will bend our knee
To Father, and ourselves in Him become.

His Spirit makes eternal Mary’s “Yes,”
And we are now by Spirit through her blessed. 

Please come, O Mother of our Lord,
And through each one repeat your “yes,”
That we may with you all adore
The One who knows each of us best.

Through His atonement He knew you
Who were conceived Immaculate
To make our human nature new
With your miraculous consent.

And now may each be born again
With nature from you, Second Eve;
Made free from our First Adam’s sin
|No longer do we need to grieve.

For each of us can now breathe deep
Of heaven’s air makes Eden new;
Your Son from sin will all us keep
Through you, without sin He first knew. 

MEMORIAL OF THE IMMACULATE HEART
OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Our Holy Mother is our Father’s well
Where Living Water springs forth from her womb
To water Eden’s East for us who fell
With Adam’s sin–deserve an earthly tomb.

Samaria is site were Son revealed
His Living Water–with the Spirit slakes
The thirst of all are by Baptism sealed–
Consent to let Him their own nature take.

The death He brings to nature ours is His
So He can give to us His nature new,
And then through each to others Himself gives
As through us all creation born anew.

His Holy Mother is the well for all
Who on Her Son and on His Father call. 

Two mothers share an easy yoke
     When they together meet,
And babe of one by movement spoke
     As they each other greet.

Together their hearts now rejoice
     In Father and His Son,
For both now Mary lifts her voice,
     And two will sing as one.

Two mothers, Son, and Prophet see
     That they’re together knit,
And old and new will as one be
     In Providential fit.

The Prophet, John, will go before
     The Son who is the Way,
And Father knows what is in store
     When Prophet has his say.

Those mothers will together weep
     When their sons meet their fate,
But Father’s love will in them keep
     Their hope that He’ll awake.

The Son of one will rise from dead,
     The other will live too,
For both their sons are Spirit-led
     And so are mothers two. 

May 31 THE FEAST OF THE VISITATION
OF MARY TO ELIZABETH

𝐈𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐦
𝐀𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡,
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 “𝐈 𝐀𝐦,”
𝐈𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡
𝐓𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐧, 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭,
𝐁𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐝
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞’𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭
𝐓𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡, 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐛.
𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐝𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐰,
𝐒𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐦, 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐞,
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐦 𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐞𝐝
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧.
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞;
𝐈𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬,

In Your own Person You begin
A New Creation for us all
That’s never fallen into sin:
“Come forth” You to creation call.

A second time Your Word You speak
From other side of empty tomb;
You are New Adam we all seek
Born from a Virgin Mother’s womb.

For she is now our Second Eve
Born from Your Adam’s wounded side:
Your future in her past received
That You may in her womb reside.

You sinless human nature take
From her become the Son of Man
That You may in us all re-make
Your Image with which we began.

Through You creation is re-born
And through the old we see the new
Made from Your love, we’re not forlorn,
For heaven in the new we view. 

In Mary, see beginning and our end—
Conception pure and bodily assumed.
Salvation reaches back where we first bloomed
To Garden where in Adam, Eve begins
All human life—with Satan did contend
And promise made through Eve that we weren’t doomed,
But saving grace would come through that blessed womb
In Mary, whose own Son takes Eve with Him.
Yes, Mary has become our looking glass
To Alpha and Omega clearly see,
For Eve and Adam once again made pure
As Jesus’ nature through her reaches past
To draw into His end all there will be
With Him; through her, salvation now made sure. 

MEMOERIAL OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA

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.

As Mother of our new life’s dawn,
     Come, roll our dark away;
Your “yes” says to our fear, “Begone,”
     For your Son brings the day—

Through you the Holy Spirit blows
     And ignorance dispels;
His wisdom shines through you to show
     He’s broken Satan’s spell—

For your Son’s “yes” in Garden here
     Was given back to you
In offer made for you to bear
     Himself and all us too—

Now you’re the Mother of all life
     That through Him now is born,
As in your “yes” shines His new light
    From Resurrection Morn!