Wednesday 14 December

St John of the Cross

Isaiah 45: 6-8, 18, 21-26, Ps. 85, Luke 7: 19-23

The Anointed One
Mary,

How is he, the Anointed One,
growing in your womb?

Soon he will fall
on hard manger straw;
bringing refreshing righteousness
as dew refreshes the parched desert.
Mary,
Let him fall on my shrivelled heart,
that it may bloom and know
there is no god but Yahweh