ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MARY

Poem for Today - August 15, 2014

SONNET 41

In Mary's body miracles took place

Expressions, Yahweh, of Your holy plan.

She danced in You before her life began,

Conception sweetly clean, without a trace

Of sin or imperfection, full of grace.

As conceived, so conceived in Anne;

So conceived the way the Son of Man

Would enter time, would join the human race.

In Mary's body, normal flesh and blood,

A spirit lived unburdened, free to love.

Normal soul and body, hand in glove,

She was as You intended: simply good.

Singularly normal in this wise,

She bridged the gap from earth to paradise.

© Christopher Fitzgerald
Painting: Virgin With Child
Mikhail Vrubel,
detail of Mary's Face