“Our Lady wears no dearer look
Than when she’s reading in a book.”
Rogier Van der Weyden
So begins a poem beloved by my book club peep Laurence. Her friend sent it with a note that it was published in America magazine in 1943. You may read the whole poem here.
Also on the page, which is part of the Mary pages at University of Dayton, Fr. Eamon R Carroll, O Carm., offers a wonderful meditation about Our Lady’s association with books:
- as a reader
- as “the perfect correspondence between what was foretold in the Bible and its fulfilment in the birth and life of Jesus”
- and as the book in which the Church finds the truth about God’s ways.
I recommend you take a look at it during this Easter season! Father Carroll has a thought on the nature of Mary’s pondering in the Gospel of Luke that I especially want to revisit.
Ateliers Brabancons
Mary Mother of the Risen Christ and of all readers…..pray for us!
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