To Saint Joseph, on the Day of my First Mass
by VP
Posted on Thursday September 16, 2021 at 12:00AM in Poetry
Type of the priesthood with its Virgin Spouse,
The Immaculate Church, our Mother ever fair!
Since even to me God’s wondrous grace allows
An office more than Seraphim may share,
I kneel to thee, most gentle Saint, and dare
To choose thee patron of the trust. O Make
My evermore fidelity thy care,
And keep me MARY’S – for Her own sweet sake!
Her knight before, and poet, now Her priest
(Not less Her slave: a thousandfold the more),
I glory in a bondage but increased,
and kiss the chain Her dear De Montfort wore,
With “Omnia Per Mariam” mottoed o’er,
Which seals me Her apostle – tho’ the least.
Feast of the Seven Dolors, March 31, 1871
Source: Poems: devotional and occasional. by Edmund of the Heart of Mary, Father, 1842-1916
