Tell the Story Again

"Do not be afraid;
for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people." (Lk 2:10)

This poem was found among the belongings of our Sr Perpetua, who died in July of 2020.  A hymn to the everflowing wellspring that is the coming of Christ into our lives.

Perennial by Sr Mary Madeleva Wolff

The final wild song of Your birth-night
can never be written;
The last shining word of Your coming
can not be said.
Rough, slow-minded shepherds will run,
angel-driven, forever
By night to a cave and a cattle shed.

And You, beyond bondage of time, without
end or beginning,
Will wake in the arms of a maid,
on an unending night.
You, the unuttered Word became Flesh
and forever now spoken,
Will be here, be our Life, our
accessible Light.

Tonight is Your night, Your incredible,
song-spangled story.
We shepherds and flocks wait on fields
beyond Bethlehem plain;
O angels, O shepherds, O Joseph, O Mary,
O Jesus,
O God, tell Your children the story again.

Image: Icon of the Nativity by Greta Lesko