'stainless power the Immaculate by conception'

Dear Edward,
Thank you for the Poems from your Retreat.
Especially timely for the 8th December, and happy to share.
In Dno.
Donald

Stainless and powerfullest     

Mary, immaculate,

enjoyed transcendent consistency

with the highest force of spirit and mind

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: edward ...
To: Donald ...
Sent: Saturday, 8 December 2012, 22:36
Subject: Three New Poems

Dear  Father Donald,

Today ... wish to see the
three latest poems (written during a few days' retreat).  ... We
have only had a small amount of snow on a few occasions, and it seems
to revert back to temperatures above freezing.
I am getting things in  order for my restarting (with help) of the
web-site. I have had to buy a new h.p. computer which seems excellent
and the price is not too high. I had to have a USB connection for the
Chromebox and that comes at a very low price from Holland.
Blessings and best wishes in Domino,
fr Edward O.P.

Stainless and powerfullest

Mary, immaculate,

enjoyed transcendent consistency

with the highest force of spirit and mind,

always mounting and nourished by God,

by Whom  she was called without ceasing,

ever mounting among recipient hierarchies,

deified from her conception.

Conceived as being daughter of Zion

in the shade of the unfinished Temple,

built like its predecessors on

Mount Moriah where God

tested Abraham to the limits:

tested and therefore prepared and strengthened.

Moriah, also the site where Melchisedech prophetically sacrificed

unbloodily with the breadiness of bread and the wineness of wine.

She would bear a victim shedding his own blood;

all was here to bear, to nurture, to instruct, to protect,

then to hear and learn,

to spend all her strength at the Cross

for three darkest hours –

hours of judgement on the priests who were spiritually blind

and on their Roman masters who had betrayed the Roman law,

abdicating from the truth, making their juridical process a cynical mockery.

That strength, consistent, and sacrifice-complaisant,

when a fallen creature judged its Creator guilty

to appease the envy of immoveable consciences, which would meet

a judgement of doom when an exaltation of implacable justice

would find those accusers guilty.

So in its hidden but unperceived stainless power

the Immaculate by conception

would contain in her heart the greatness of this crime,

they dried up (but she fully perceptive)

from whose descendents a trickle would,

over centuries of self-willed isolation,

pass over to become adoptive sons

in the Mystical Body, through the birth-pangs

of its Mother, Zion's begotten daughter:

herself the bridge from Old to New,

each undergoing a Pasch of total renewal.

So was Mary established in joy, the replacement mother for Eve.

A creature destined as world-carrier and -renewer,

renewed in her by her free-consenting.

With power greater than all monarchs and rulers,

holding the key to the key and turning together,

with her Son and his Vicar, united as one,

in the exaltation of the demure figure

painted by Michelangelo,

as turning aside and not seeing the judgement,

yet fully aware.

Steadfast in faith in a breakthrough of love

as it was from her beginning,

as the ensouling of her own flesh

divinely not humanly occasioned;

homely and all-embracing each evolutionised human,

as the end-product, processual and purposeful for history's duration,

formalised as time.

Once chosen and predestined without hesitation giving her consent

to mother the single body of her Son

and sought with judgment unlimited participants

of transcendentalising glory without end

as humanity's heavenly crowning with her own.

6 December 2012

Stykkishólmur - Retreat 2