St Mary Redcliffe Parish Magazine February/March 2020
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Prayers • Epiphany & Lent<br />
Lines from The Fairacres Madonna<br />
Who carved you, Lady,<br />
Set you free?<br />
What majesty was axed for you,<br />
What leaves lay crushed,<br />
That you might be?<br />
What beauty first in need and shoot,<br />
What sapling grace,<br />
What hope grew firm?<br />
What years of steady growth and death<br />
Prepared the heart for Master-hand?<br />
Pietà<br />
— Sister Rosemary Dawn Watling<br />
A dome superb as heaven’s vault, capping a story<br />
Whose hero blessed the meek; a desert of floor<br />
Refracting faith like a mirage; the orchestration<br />
Of gold and marble engulfing the still, small voice:<br />
You cannot pass over <strong>St</strong> Peter’s and what it stands for,<br />
Whether you see it as God’s vicarious throne<br />
Or the biggest bubble yet unpricked...<br />
I was lost, ill at ease here, until by chance<br />
In a side chapel we found a woman mourning<br />
Her son: all the lacrimae verum flowed<br />
To her gesture of grief, all life’s blood from his stone.<br />
There is no gap or discord between the divine<br />
And the human in that pieta of Michelangelo.<br />
— C Day Lewis 1904-1972<br />
An Italian Visit<br />
notes & permissions — an excerpt from the fairacres madonna by sister rosemary dawn<br />
watling printed here as a reflection for the feast of the annunciation [25 march] | pietÀ<br />
from an anthology for the church year; ed h j richards; kevin mayhew publishing © 1998<br />
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Journey into Science<br />
<strong>Magazine</strong> Editor<br />
get in touch<br />
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Graham Marsh<br />
Marion Durbur<br />
Keith Donoghue<br />
David Harrowes<br />
<strong>St</strong>ephen Brooke<br />
c /o <strong>Parish</strong> Office<br />
Becky Macron<br />
Sarah James<br />
c/o <strong>Parish</strong> Office<br />
Lewis Semple<br />
c /o <strong>Parish</strong> Office<br />
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Gareth Lawson<br />
Pat Terry<br />
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