How can this be? (Fr. Paul Murray)

It opens like a river
in full spate, or like a window
with a gust of wind.
And it’s as if an archangel
had entered the room. And
everybody has to stop what they’re doing.
And the air is a river of words.
And all of a sudden you see
– and with a start –
that an archangel has entered,
and your heart is in your mouth.
And you feel you are drowning
in a river of divine words, and hear
yourself saying, over and over,
‘How can this be?’ 

 --Paul Murray OP

Happy Solemnity of the Annunciation!

Source of images: Annunciation, Notre-Dame de Banneux, Liège, Belgium, https://banneux-nd.be/fr/neuf-jours-pour-preparer-la-belle-fete-de-lannonciation/
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