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Tuesday 24 December
COMMENT on Luke 1:67-79
“Our God from om high will bring the rising to visit us”.
MAGNIFICAT com
MEDITATION OF THE DAY
The Poem 'Where the Pictures
Came From"
Angels are seldom overheard.
But try.
Go listen.
They might be remembering.
They might be whispering
about the night
they seeded the sky with
embers
and it caught
All over the place, the
sky took fire.
Astronomers, on various
corners of the earth,
reported a shower of burning
embers.
This was the night-angels
will tell you–
when they clambered over
the poles
and raced each other through
the tundra,
and swam a hundred
mountain lakes,
shaking the water off
like seals,
and kept on going.
They knew they were
wanted.
It had to be night, they'll
tell you,
because night is so
simple, so all one thing,
even when burnt with
embers.
And God had poured himself so flawlessly
into a human heart
that nothing less simple
than night
could venture an explanation.
The angels got there, they
will tell you.
They ran up the hill,
singing a song the colour of darkness,
chanting like sea bells
in places of no horizon.
They stood in a circle on
the floor of a cave,
and drew pictures on its
walls
to entertain the visitors
.
And rocked in their song
an infant of one hour's age,
who was as old as God.
Sister
Miriam Pollard,
o.c.s.o.
Sister
Miriam Pollard is a Cistercian nun
at Santa Rita Abbey in Sonoita. Arizona.
at Santa Rita Abbey in Sonoita. Arizona.
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