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Mary’s Hands
This poem is my reflection on what it would mean to be Mary’s hands in the world.
I could as well ask what it would mean to be Christ’s hands in the world, but she is the very image of His desire to work through free human agency. Because she is the embodiment of the Holy Spirit’s movement, she becomes, like any mother, rather invisible, in herself. Yet her obedience, her fullness-of-grace, her motherly concern and desire to bring Christ to the world are radiant, significant, and powerfully instructive. If Mother Mary would, herself, fill my hands, giving me charge of some of her children, then I would gladly share His love with them, and hers. The quality of the Love, of the Chalice holding that Love, is to be always pouring out. To the Holy Spirit and, in some sense, then, to Mary, and thus, to me, Christ has left the task of this constant motion of filling-and-spilling, of receiving-and-giving, of taking Him from the Cross to give Him away. It seems to me that being Mary’s hands is a key to the meaning of the ‘priesthood of all believers’. The priest holds the Chalice of pain and suffering to make Christ’s merciful tenderness present to His Church. Mary, and we all, hold the Chalice of His victory over death to give hope to the world.
Mary’s Hands
Mary’s hands –
Our Lord’s embrace –
through them springs
the fount of grace.
Mary’s hands
prepare the way.
She dawns before
the brightening day.
Mary’s hands
illume the night –
Radiant Monstrance,
Grace-fed Light.
Mary’s hands
carry her Son
to all the world
His blood has won.
Mary’s hands –
filled from above,
spill forth from me,
Chalice of Love.
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