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A Christmas Poem

The Holy One of Mary
by Father Leonard Feeney, M.I.C.M.
And this is He Whom Heaven hymns,
All trembling in His white young limbs,
Whom choirs adore and seraphs bless-
Unspeakable His helplessness.
A Baby’s cheek the wind would kindle.
Ah, holy weaver and blessed spindle,
That spun the little swaddling clothes
To sheathe so sweet, so fair a rose!
Dull stable-lamp, my love you [...]

Posted 24 December 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Religion § School Life § Society ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Rosa Mystica – Mystical Rose – A Medieval Mary-Song

Maria Walks Amid the Thorn reminds me of another poem from I Sing of a Maiden, this time a medieval Mary-song (author: Anonymous).
Rosa Mystica
There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare [bore] Jesu:
Alleluia!
For in that rose containèd was
Heaven and earth in little space:
Res Miranda!
By that rose we well may [...]

Posted 22 December 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § English § Latin § School Life ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Feast of Our Lady of the Expectation

Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Expectation. This feast has an interesting history that Brother Andre reviewed for us this morning (one aspect being the deferred feast of the Incarnation — Annunciation — from the days when no feasts were kept in Lent). In Spain, this feast day is Nuestra Senora de [...]

Posted 18 December 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Religion § Society ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Plato and Liberal Education – Part Three

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Plato and Liberal Education
III. The Epochs in Plato’s Educational System
The key for Plato’s system of education is the Greek word μουσικε (sounds like “musikay”) which has survived in our modern languages in such words as “music” and “museum”. To the Greeks the term had a wider signification, including within its comprehension [...]

Posted 03 December 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,