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Poetry

Ex Maria Virgine

Delia Craig

Contents - Dec 2003 AD2000 December 2003

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Editorial: The challenge of Christmas - Peter Westmore
John Paul II's 25th anniversary: the impact of his teachings - Cardinal George Pell
News: The Church Around the World
INTERVIEW: New Melbourne and Sydney Religious Education texts - Msgr Peter Elliott
VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success - Fr Paul Stuart
EVENTS: Adore 2004: a Eucharistic Congress for youth
BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition - Michael Gilchrist
Social Justice Statement 2003: a response from Bishop Saunders
Letters: Social Justice Statement - Michael Barr
Letters: Centrality of tabernacle - Marie Cassey
Letters: Common sense - Michael Barry
Letters: Inspiring article - Thomas Jones
Poetry: Ex Maria Virgine - Delia Craig
Letters: Voice of the Faithful - St Michael's Group
Letters: Heresies - John K. Hannon
Letters: Unwarranted school closure - Maurice McGrath
Letters: Men at church - Rosanne Turne
Letters: Perth homeschooling conference - Lorraine Haydon
Books: Confirmed in the Faith, by Dora Nash - Joanna Bogle (reviewer)
Books: Adventures in Orthodoxy, by Dwight Longenecker - Richard Egan (reviewer)
Books: Celibacy in the Early Church, by Stefan Heid - Fr Peter Murphy (reviewer)
Books: You Are Peter, by Olivier Clément - Peter Westmore (reviewer)
Books: Socrates meets Machiavelli, Socrates meets Marx, by Peter Kreeft - Bill Muehlenberg (reviewer)
Books: AD Books - Top Ten Sellers in 2003
Books: AD Books - A happy and a holy Christmas!
Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas - Pope John Paul II

Ex Maria Virgine

When has the might of man surpassed that She
Who worshipped on her meek adoring knee
And to the Second of the Awful Three
(In Manhood less, in Godhead Equal-One)
Whispered with shining eyes "It is my Son!"

* * *

Dread Majesty without After or Before
By Faith alone we knew it when we saw
The little One's pale face amid the straw
The Father's Word above all human guess
And God Himself no longer Motherless.

* * *

And shall He pity not who understands
The feel of kiss and gentle swaddling bands?
Kind Christ, have mercy by those loving hands
More powerful than the angels when Thy Head
Slept on her heart, and God was comforted.

-DELIA CRAIG-

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 16 No 11 (December 2003 - January 2004), p. 13