Mary the dawn, Christ the Perfect Day
intimate relationship between Jesus and His mother Mary. This poem is one of the hymns suggested for the Morning Prayer of the
Liturgy of the Hours' "Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary". The
poem now exists in its edited form by the Dominican Sisters of
Summit (1972). The poems reads as follows:
Mary the dawn, Christ the Perfect Day;
Mary the gate, Christ the Heavenly Way!
Mary the root, Christ the Mystic Vine;
Mary the grape, Christ the Sacred Wine!
Mary the wheat, Christ the Living Bread;
Mary the stem, Christ the Rose blood-red!
Mary the font, Christ the Cleansing Flood;
Mary the cup, Christ the Saving Blood!
Mary the temple, Christ the temple's Lord;
Mary the shrine, Christ the God adored!
Mary the beacon, Christ the Haven's Rest;
Mary the mirror, Christ the Vision Blest!
Mary the mother, Christ the mother's Son
By all things blest while endless ages run. Amen.