Full of grace (Mother Mary Francis P.C.C.)

               In fullness is no static state of being 

Nor yet suffices that container be 

Enlarged for more grace by each grace’s giving 

Its whole return in love to graced design. 

            

By more expansion of you, Mary, danger 

Of overspill grows greater with each pouring 

From zest of God’s exuberant donation 

Of grace where grace is fast absorbed and spent. 

            

We come to save you, inundated Mother, 

From floods of grace high rising in your soul. 

Here with cupped hearts we kneel to beg a drenching. 

Hail, Mary, full of grace, spill grace on us. 

--Mother Mary Francis P.C.C. 

Hail, Full of Grace
(being a short theological dissertation 
on the fullness of grace) 

Summon’s Spirit Cry: A Collection of Poems 

San Francisco:  Ignatius Press, 1996 

Image source:  Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, http://mountcarmelmv.org/