Our Morning Offering – 14 December – Saturday of the Second week of Advent, Year A, the Memorial of St Venantius Fortunatus (c 530 – c 609) and a Marian Saturday
The God whom earth and sea and sky For Mary, The Mother of God For the Annunciation and Christmas By St Venantius Fortunatus (c 530 – c 609)
The God whom earth and sea and sky
Adore and praise and magnify,
Whose might they claim, whose love they tell,
In Mary’s body comes to dwell.
O Mother blest! the chosen shrine
Wherein the architect divine,
Whose hand contains the earth and sky,
Has come in human form to lie.
Blest in the message Gabriel brought,
Blest in the work the Spirit wrought,
Most blest, to bring to human birth
The long desired of all the earth.
O Lord, the Virgin-born, to you
Eternal praise and laud are due,
Whom with the Father we adore
And Spirit blest for evermore.
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2 thoughts on “Our Morning Offering – 14 December – The God whom earth and sea and sky”
Another fine poem, you are making a sophisticated believer of me, or trying to. Blessed be “Breathing Catholic”
Another fine poem, you are making a sophisticated believer of me, or trying to. Blessed be “Breathing Catholic”
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And to think these magnificent words are over 1500+ old Hughie!
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