Day: March 25, 2009

LifeStream

Daily Digest for 2009-03-25

lastfm (feed #3) 10:13am Scrobbled a song on Last.fm.

twitter (feed #4) 8:24pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.

New blog post: March 25 – O Mary, spotless virgin http://tinyurl.com/cjw3kw
facebook (feed #7) 8:24pm Updated status on Facebook.

Deacon Jim New blog post: March 25 – O Mary, spotless virgin http://tinyurl.com/cjw3kw.
twitter (feed #4) 9:14pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.

New blog post: March 24 – We herald the voice http://tinyurl.com/cgq4yr
facebook (feed #7) 9:14pm Updated status on Facebook.

Deacon Jim New blog post: March 24 – We herald the voice http://tinyurl.com/cgq4yr.
twitter (feed #4) 9:56pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.

New blog post: March 23 – Spring by Elżbieta Drużbacka http://tinyurl.com/c668tp
facebook (feed #7) 9:56pm Updated status on Facebook.

Deacon Jim New blog post: March 23 – Spring by Elżbieta Drużbacka http://tinyurl.com/c668tp.
twitter (feed #4) 10:38pm Posted a tweet on Twitter.

New blog post: March 22 – To the Poet Martyr by Juan Diaz Covarrubias http://tinyurl.com/cw3dk6
facebook (feed #7) 10:38pm Updated status on Facebook.

Deacon Jim New blog post: March 22 – To the Poet Martyr by Juan Diaz Covarrubias http://tinyurl.com/cw3dk6.
twitter (feed #4) 12:47am Posted a tweet on Twitter.

New blog post: Fourth Sunday of Lent – B http://tinyurl.com/cs5qrk
facebook (feed #7) 12:47am Updated status on Facebook.

Deacon Jim New blog post: Fourth Sunday of Lent – B http://tinyurl.com/cs5qrk.
Poetry

March 25 – O Mary, spotless virgin

O Mary, spotless virgin,
Allow us to see the face of God,
Of the heavenly Lord.

Spotless, you conceived Jesus,
Carried and brought Him to birth,
You were the first to pray to Him.

Through your most holy fruit,
Dear Virgin, deign to support us,
Strengthen our body, our soul.

You see that we are constrained
By great diseases,
Therefore pray for us.

We trust that you will be heard
By Him who moves the entire world,
All creation listens to Him.

When you, most holy, are praying,
All the saints are praying too,
When you are silent, so are they.

May we at this sermon
Come to knowledge of God,
After this prayer to Mary,

Which was given to all good people
And specially those pious ones.
Let each of us greet her

With this greeting. That’s how the angel
Greeted the most holy,
Saying: “Hail Mary”.

Translated by Michael J. Mikoś

annunciation_nesterov

Maryja, czysta dziewice,
Daj nam widzieć Boże lice,
Niebieskie dziedzice!

Czysta, Krysta jeś poczęła
I snosiła, porodziła,
Z nas pirwsza prosiła.

Przez ten twoj naświętszy owoc,
Miła Panna, racz nam wspomoc,
Na duszy, na ciele wzmoc.

Widzisz, żesmy opętani
Wielikimi niemocami,
Przez to proś za nami.

Wierzymy, iż cie wysłusza
Ten, jen wszytkim światem rusza,
Jegoż wsza twarz słusza.

Tyś naświęsza modlisz kiegdy,
Modlą wszytcy święci tegdy,
Milczą – milczysz wszegdy.

Abychom na tem kazaniu
Przyszli k bożskiemu poznaniu
Po tem zawitaniu,

Zgotowano jeż wszem dobrym,
A osobnie Bogiem szczodrym,
Pozdrow pozdrowienim

Z nas każdy, tym pozdrowi ją
Anjoł, gdyż naświętszą wieci,
Rzkąc: “Zdrowa jeś Maryja”.