Scott Bates updates the birth of Jesus, having him born in a gas station.
Tag Archives: Virgin Mary
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.”
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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