General (Vol. 2)

Article Sections

Contents

  1. A Small Voice
  2. Aspects of Motherhood
  3. When Jesus Stands Before Me
  4. The Revolution
  5. I Cannot Bear to See the News
  6. Disaster
  7. Ways of Praying
  8. Five Thousand
  9. When the Colour Runs Out
  10. For Mission
  11. Life Songs
  12. Exploring Theodicy And Dorothy Soelle
  13. Salute the Dawn
  14. World Harvest
  15. Dona Nobis
  16. I give
  17. How Do You Know?
  18. War and Peace
  19. Security
  20. Risk
  21. Behind the Tomb
  22. The Fall in Question
  23. Clarity in Mystery
  24. Forever and Sublime
  25. Death's Shadow in a Kiss
  26. Beauty
  27. Dearest Jesus
  28. Deus Semper Maior
  29. The Parish Church
  30. The Earthly Pain of Jesus
  31. Amor Omnia Vincit
  32. Gospel Music
  33. Thy Glittering Throne Awaits The Throng
  34. Wisdom and Love
  35. Creativity
  36. Traditions
  37. God and His People
  38. Love is Supreme
  39. Liberation
  40. The Heavenly Balance
  41. The Impenetrable Core
  42. All Saints
  43. The Calling of Mary
  44. Christ Triumphant Dwells within Us
  45. On the Streets
  46. You and Me
  47. Revenge
  48. Hostages
  49. Earthly Glory
  50. Water of Life

The Calling of Mary

  1. The calling of Mary so humble and true
    United our God with his people on earth;
    He took human form as a wandering Jew
    Whose passion and death were innate in His birth:
    And Mary whose maidenly service was given
    Was called by her Son and assumed into heaven.
  2. She shared all the grief and the joy of her child,
    The threats and the exile, the taunts and the tears,
    The way He was loved by the poor and reviled,
    The lives that He changed in His wandering years:
    But then she was struck by the worst that can fall;
    She outlived her own Son who had come to rule all.
  3. She outlived our Saviour again at the end
    Who took earthly shape after rising again;
    And saw him ascend and the Spirit descend
    Completing a mission she could not explain:
    The greatest of saints by a sudden request
    To serve God's own Son with her womb and her breast.
  4. O Mary, we beg you to act as our guide
    In reaching the dwelling of Your loving son
    And help us to serve Him with patience and pride
    Until our brief life in His service is done:
    Then may we be quartered in Naz'reth to share
    The love of Your family which lives with you there.