Friday, March 29, AD 2024 1:12am

Annunciation

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all everywhere,
Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,
Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,
Lo, faithful virgin, yields Himself to lie
In prison, in thy womb; and though He there
Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He will wear,
Taken from thence, flesh, which death’s force may try.
Ere by the spheres time was created, thou
Wast in His mind, who is thy Son and Brother;
Whom thou conceivst, conceived; yea thou art now
Thy Maker’s maker, and thy Father’s mother;
Thou hast light in dark, and shutst in little room,
Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb.

John Donne

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Wednesday, March 25, AD 2020 6:09am

ponders how this connects to the many jokes about Corona babies from the quarantine– and that the name for the family of viruses means Crown

Penguins Fan
Penguins Fan
Wednesday, March 25, AD 2020 6:41pm

This Solemnity – the fulfillment of all of the Old Testament – is as Far. Larry Riscards put it, the single greatest moment in the history of the universe since its creation.

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