By Alla Renee Bozarth Living God’s Justice Reflections and Prayers
Before Jesus, Was His Mother
Before Jesus, was His mother.
Before supper in the upper room, breakfast in the barn.
Before the Passover Feast, a feeding trough.
And there, the altar of Earth, fair linens of hay and seed.
Before His cry, her cry. Before His sweat of blood, her bleeding and tears. Before His offering, hers.
Before the breaking of bread and death, the breaking of her body in birth.
Before the offering of the cup, the offering of her breast. Before His blood, her blood. And by her body and blood alone, His body and blood and whole human being.
The wise ones knelt to hear the woman’s word in wonder. Holding up her sacred child, her God in the form of a babe, she said:
“Receive and let your hearts be healed and your lives He filled with love, for This is my body, This is my blood.”
(The Roundtable Association of Diocesan Social Action Directors)
May all the mothers of the earth now and in the future be filled with love, compassion and gentleness as Our Mother Mary did.
May the “YES” Mary gave to God be the same kind of “YES” women around the world give to life.
May women around the world be models of peace in their families, to their children, to the community in honor of Mary, our “Queen of Peace”.
Amen.