Tag Archives: Virgin Mary

Christmas at Cohen’s Garage

Scott Bates updates the birth of Jesus, having him born in a gas station.

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Mary and the Threefold Terror of Love

Yeats’ “Mother of God” is a good poem for the third Sunday in Advent.

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Mary Sang in This World Below

Tolkien’s poem “Noel” celebrates Mary’s “Magnificat.”

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Mary’s Courage In Saying Yes

Levertov’s “The Annunciation” sees Mary as making a momentous choice and not as a passive receptacle.

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When All Around Doubt the Mystery

How can we believe in mystery when everything appears as it has always appeared? So the Virgin Mary wonders in this Carl Phillips poem.

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O Virgin Mother, Daughter of the Sun

To celebrate Mother’s Day, here’s the moment in “Paradiso” when Dante meets Mary.

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Mothering Jesus

Spiritual Sunday – Mother’s Day For Mother’s Day, here are three Madeleine L’Engle poems about Mary and Jesus following the crucifixion. I love how they focus on Mary as mother. Three daysWhen you agree to be the mother of GodYou make no conditions, no stipulations.You flinch before neither cruel thorn nor rod.You accept the tears; […]

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Light beyond Sun and Words

Spiritual Sunday Tomorrow being the Annunciation–Christians believe the Holy Spirit visited Mary nine months before December 25–I share a series of poems on the subject by Lucille Clifton, that most motherly of poets. In “a song of mary,” Clifton captures the ordinariness of Mary’s life before Jesus, even as there are princes “sitting on thrones […]

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Ballad of a Nun, a Bordello, and Mary

Scott Bates’ “Ballad of Thoughtful Love” retells a medieval fable about a nun-turned-whore who is saved by the Virgin Mary.

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