Mary is the most gentle, the most silent character in the Bible. A humble maiden, a village lass, who led a very ordinary life in Nazareth, pondering everything in her heart! But she is the Virgin most Powerful, the New Eve, the New Ark of the Covenant!Yes,she is the Tower of David, the Seat of Wisdom! To know her is to know Wisdom, because she carried in her womb the Word Incarnate, the Eternal Wisdom!
I hope to collect nuggets and quotes and poems from the Scriptures, tradition and literature. This , my Mother, will be my humble tribute to you.Let me begin from Literature .....
Here is what the English poet Wordsworth has to say about this Miraculous Woman of all ages....
The Virgin
Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost
With the least shade of thought to sin allied;
Woman! above all women glorified,
Our tainted nature's solitary boast;
Purer than foam on central ocean tost;
Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn
With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon
Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast;
Thy Image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween,
Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend,
As to a visible Power, in which did blend
All that was mixed and reconciled in Thee
Of mother's love with maiden purity,
Of high with low, celestial with terrene!
William Wordsworth
I hope to collect nuggets and quotes and poems from the Scriptures, tradition and literature. This , my Mother, will be my humble tribute to you.Let me begin from Literature .....
Here is what the English poet Wordsworth has to say about this Miraculous Woman of all ages....
With the least shade of thought to sin allied;
Woman! above all women glorified,
Our tainted nature's solitary boast;
Purer than foam on central ocean tost;
Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn
With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon
Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast;
Thy Image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween,
Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend,
As to a visible Power, in which did blend
All that was mixed and reconciled in Thee
Of mother's love with maiden purity,
Of high with low, celestial with terrene!
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