Marie du jour 2021, May 4: St. John of the Cross

The Virgin, weighed
with the Word of God,
comes down the road:
if only you’ll shelter her.

Del Verbo divino
la Virgen preñada
viene de camino:
¡si le dais posada!

Saint John of the Cross
Poetry, 13

John of the Cross, St. 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K and Rodriguez, O with revisions and introductions by Kavanaugh, K, ICS Publications, Washington DC.