05 Aug Ave Maria – “Widow of the Mountain”

God had created a nation of priests from the dust of the Earth
That He could also create in His sight, by His law and decree
One of perfection fulfilling her duty, His Mother by birth,

Drawn from His thoughts, she the model of one for all mothers to be
Joy for the Mountain of Zion who wields for herself an assiduous sword,
Chastity-forged and by charity-sharpened: a prophetess wife,

Grace in her spangled and radiant, magnified light of the Word,
Worthy to share in the Sanctified Blood of the blood of her life,
Red for her sorrows but purity blue by her willing to fight,

Gifted with stars and the garments of hosts in the sky she observed
Turning in prayer to the Lord with a faith undefiled by sight
Walking a cemetery road to the God she had served
Gently remaking the world as she tread on it, scarlet to white.