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,ga Ck' yaffirf 'aff'-'J :AJ-' f s-JZ'-' 4' but on account of the purity of her birth was to become the spouse of the Holy Spirit, and the Mother of Christ, is familiar to us all: Hail, Mary, full of grace' In what more beautiful way could that Messenger of God have told Mary of the wonderful honor and blessings that were to be hers? How could he have told her more gently, more considerately? Indeed, he was divinely inspired by the Holy Ghost in just what way to tell that timid little girl that she had been chosen out of all the world of women to be the Mother of the Redeemer. The Lord is with thee! ' E From that time until the present, the name and purity of Mary have been praised in poetry. To pass over many of the Fathers, and the Latin Marian hymnists, we come to Dante, Italy's immortal poet, who not only extolls Mary's sinlessness, but even gives proof of his belief in it in the lines: Thou art the one who such nobility To human nature gave, that its Creator Did not disdain to make Himself its creature. Then, turning to authors and poets of the English tongue, we iind our first great English poet, Chaucer, singing the praises of the Mother of God. Of whose vertue when He thine hearte lit, Conceived was the Father's Sapiencef' During the succeeding centuries other poets of lesser note penned lines to Mary. Among many of the beautiful poems dedicated to the Blessed Virgin by Crashaw, one is exceptionally exquisite, in which he poetically tells us that the Virgin was A piece of heavenly earth, purer and brighter Than the chaste stars whose choice lamps came To light her. And in our own day Francis Thompson, who so beautifully and poetically wrote The Hound of Heaven , pays this tribute to Mary: She bears on her front's lucency The starlight of her purity, For as the white rays of that star The union of all colors are, She sums all virtues that may be In her sweet light of purity. Eleanor C. Donnelly, an American author who has written innumer- able poems, not only in praise of the Blessed Virgin, but of every other Catholic ideal, extolls Mary's immaculacy in the passage: The whitest Whitness of the Alpine snows, Beside thy stainless spirit, dusky grows. Among our lesser modern Catholic poets are to be found many lovely tributes. This one from the pen of Charles J. Quirk, S. J., is particu- larly fine: I lf 'A v 'A f'-X v X, fb JN fb eighteen
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1 1 I. A i 3 f fa i 7 .mfr I IRKEIZEQIIQEIEIQ M 191 ' ' 5 SZ! Elamnnh Zlnmhersarp fs J. HE YEAR OF 1929 will go down in history as a memorable G 9 one in the annals of the Church, marking as it does, the 5, CFB? Sacerdotal Golden Jubilee of the Father of Christendom, ,Z X3 Pope Pius XI, the final settlement of the long debated 1. I? Roman Question, and crowning all, the Diamond Anni- L f S versary of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. R 6 V I 5 Throughout the hundreds of years of Christianity, before 'D the time of Pope Plus IX, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, that is, her utter freedom from even the slightest CJ, ig' tsl stain of original sin, had always been a tradition of the J a Church: but it remained for this devoted admirer of Zo? Mary to raise this tradition to a Dogma of Faith. Pope Pius IX had ascertained the belief of the Episcopate on the 5 Immaculate Conception and realized the expediency of defining it. As A a result he fixed as the day for the definition, December 8, 1854. Car- L dinal Wiseman gives us a very graphic account of the proceedings. fl The ceremony began at eight o'clock on one of the sunshiny ,I mornings so frequent in sunny Italy. Fifty-one Cardinals and one hun- dred and fifty-two bishops formed a magnificent and colorful procession. These dignified princes of the Church paid homage to the Pontiff before fra the beginning of Mass. After the presentation of the petition for defi- V nition by the Venerable Dean of the Sacred College, Cardinal Macchi, ' the Pope intoned the hymn to the Holy Ghost, Veni Creator Spiritusf' Z As the choir sang the first verse, the rest of the assembly, with a voice S as loud as the sound of many waters, took up the hymn. Then the ' Pontiff, standing before his throne read the decree.. It was so beau- tifully written and the sentiment expressed held such a personal appeal C for those present that hardly a dry eye was to be seen. The Cardinal CW Dean returned thanks before the throne, and the entire assembly joined 5 in singing the Te Deum. g Thus it was that this beautiful tradition of our Church became a .Q Dogma of Faith. Everywhere lovers of Mary welcomed the opportunity 5 to pay homage to her in her role of Mary Immaculate. For centuries the beauty of Mary's purity had been extolled in song and story. We have preserved many of these poems, but who can tell what gems of Z thought have been lost on account of the obscurity of the poet. On F. looking back over the centuries we are able to find in nearly every decade ' X a new thought or a difference in expression, but always telling the same ' story, breathing the same innocence and saturated with the same love. as What more fitting tribute can we offer to our Lady on this Diamond CS Anniversary of the Dogma of her Immaculate Conception than briefiy to call to your attention a few of the precious gems with which poets of fist all times, and of differing creeds have studded her crown of glory! The tinge of mystery which surrounds this belief has always inspired artists 21' to create about it a thing of beauty. The first poem ever addressed to the lily maid at Nazareth, kneeling so humbly at prayer, who not only was the daughter of God, Himself, Q 4 , P YSBQSK SCUCYUGCTI
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f .XY -, - ,. mmzmujgggirg 'mg Her slnlessness hath crowned her evermore The sweetheart of the sovran of the Lord. Our one time Minister to Denmark, Maurice F. Egan, in his Vigil of the Immaculate Conception writes: O moon, O symbol of our Lady's whiteness, O snow, O symbol of our Lady's heart. However, one must not be of the impression that only Catholic poets have written in praise of Mary's purity. Many a non-Catholic poet of note has at some time or another paid homage to Our Lady Immaculate. These lines are from the pen of Sir Walter Scott: Ave Maria, stainless styled! Foul demons of the earth and air, From this their wonted haunt exiled Shall flee before thy presence fair. The poet Shelley, referring to Mary in her unique privilege, calls her a Sweet Benediction in the eternal curse. And Robert Southey, poet-laureate of England in 1819 bears testi- mony to the belief of the Immaculate Conception in A Tale of Para- guay, wherein he makes one of the characters say these lines: They served a maid more beautiful than tongue Could tell or heart conceive ....... Being one in whose pure elements no trace Had e'er inhered of sin or mortal stain. But the most noted and most frequently quoted lines to the Blessed Virgin, from the pen of a non-Catholic were written by Wordsworth: Mother, whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied, Woman, above all women glorified, Our tainted nature's solitary boast. Besides the authors I have quoted there are many others who have written beautifully of Mary. We honor her as the Mother of Christ, we realize that she is an exalted beingg we recognize her as the noblest woman who has ever graced the world. Never does the true Catholic heart tire of singing her praises. To us she embodies the quintessence of beauty, humility and purity. Her absolute stainlessness sets her apart from other women and renders her worthy of occupying woman's highest place in heaven, the throne of the Mother of God. No praise can be too great, no adjective too superlative to describe her. We love the story of her Immaculate Conception and herlsinless life, and we realize that her immaculacy was a special privilege accorded by her Divine Son, for Whose sake She was made 'full of grace'. - PHYLLIS SENKE, '29, c- niGDeK1f:3G26'xlOQf'5NfJQ'fNfiD'1S mneteen
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