Ora pro Nobis
August 15, 2009, 12:43 pm
Posted by Robert P. Imbelli
On this feast of the Assumption of Mary, from John Donne’s “A Litanie:”
For that faire blessed Mother-maid,
Whose flesh redeem’d us; that she-Cherubin
Which unlocked Paradise, and made
One claime for innocence, and disseiz’d sinne,
Whose wombe was a strange heav’n, for there
God cloath’d himselfe, and grew,
Our zealous thankes wee poure. As her deeds were
Our helpes, so are her prayers; nor can she sue
In vaine, who hath such titles unto You.
Fr. Imbelli, in view of yesterday’s Gospel, to say of the Blessed Virgin “Whose flesh redeemed us” is somewhat of a dazzling insight!
Jim,
I took the line to refer to Christ: He is Mary’s flesh who redeemed us.
Yes, I did, too. It’s quite an insightful way of looking at it