Blazing Hearth in the Coldest of Winters

 

Keep very close to the Virgin Mary, 

    don't ever forsake her, 

as we need this good Mother 

    like the earth needs the sun to survive,

else it would wither off and die,

    and be forgotten forever.

Hail Mary, the sinless, the spotless. 

    Our life. Our sweetness. Our hope. 

The immaculately conceived One. 

Hail Mary and let the Ave Maria

    Be always on your lips,

For Her name is life to the languishing soul,

    Her name is beauty in a searching world,

And the love of Her Immaculate Heart is

    blazing hearth in the coldest of winters.

O Thou who wert Immaculately Conceived,

    by the grace and mercy of God,

O New Eve, pray for us in exile from Eden. 

transience

 

we know not how much longer

    the light will remain on this veiled land

we know not how much longer

    we will wander through this misty world

before we are taken into the next

and that next world is so much

more real

more true

more lasting

and more fulfilling 

than all the 'worlds' we have created 

in this fleeting, transient world, 

if we live what life we have left for God alone

so let us live every moment of this present day, 

and every day that we each have left,

burning, burning, for the love of God our Father,

Christ His Son,

and the Holy Spirit our Helper