Mission Preaching
by Father Kevin MacDonald, C.Ss.R.
"With Jesus there is plentiful redemption."
Psalm 130:7
Recommended Reading
Poem by Jan Richardson
(a different perspective on Mary's visitation
from the Archangel Gabriel)
For a moment, I hesitated on the threshold.
For the space of a breath, I paused
Unwilling to disturb
Her last ordinary moment…
The artists would later depict the scene
Mary dazzled by the archangel,
Her head bowed in humble assent
Awed by the messenger…
Yet I tell you it was I who was dazzled
I who found myself agape
Reading? the loom? in the kitchen?
I cannot recall.
Only that the woman before me -
“Blessed and full of grace”
Long before I called her so -
Shimmered with how completely
She inhabited herself
Inhabited the space around her
Inhabited the moment
That hung between us.
I want to save her from what I had been sent to say
Yet when the time came,
When I stammered the invitation
(History would not record the sweat on my brow, the pounding of my heart;
Would not note, that I said
“Do not be afraid”
To myself as much as to her.)
It was she who saved me,
Her first deliverance.
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