MARY’S  MORNING PRAYER

Each day my whole being

proclaims the mysteries of the Lord.

Each day my whole being is a calling:

to bring Jesus into our world,

to bring Jesus to others.

Yes, swords pierce hearts.

Yes, life has its sorrowful mysteries.

Yet, each day is also filled with

life’s joyful and glorious mysteries:

rushing in haste into the hill country of others

to be present with them in their needs;

to find and to help others

when they run out of the wine of life,

when all that is left is

emptiness, blood and water.

Yes, there are agonies 

in the garden of the soul.

Yes, there is the carrying 

of the cross to Calvary.

Yet each day my whole being

proclaims the mystery of Jesus’ presence

in our world: Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost,

then the Lifting Up and the Crowning

in the Kingdom of Heaven.

© Andrew Costello