Alleluia! Ave Mater Dei, gratia plena, Donminus tecum.Alleluia! Hail, Mother of God, filled with grace, the Lord is with you.At the moment of his painful death, the son shivered and then was completely still. The Grail cup tipped over and the wine soaked into the hot sands. The sky filled with clouds preparing to cry out at the unjustice of the human race. The Son is dead!The mother, distraught at the sight of his death could be heard singing this song:O, vos omnes, qui transitis per viam,attendite et videte, si est dolor similis,sicut dolor meus!All you that pass by this way,look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow!Her tears fell heavily to earth and nurtured the small plants. Dear Mother, rejoice for he is not here...he is gone! One must die in order to be reborn. Rejoice, for the change has come upon us all.
This just burst into bloom and was so beautiful, I had to share it. The color is actually much more purple than it looks in my photograph. It also smells heavenly. The odor is a cross between a spicy cinnamon and tangerine. This cross is C. intermedia 'aquinii' "Boa Vista" and C. walkeriana "Pendentive".
Tu rubes ut aurora et ardes ut solis flamma.
You glow red like the dawn and you burn like the sun's fire!
Tongues of Flame
I awoke in the darkness, aware of my losing.
I'm trapped and I'm chained...can't feel my way through.
Yet I thrash and I struggle and welcome the bruising.
I'm parched for you lips, for a cool breeze of blue,
But, my heart's all in flames, it's all so confusing.
I'm longing for freedom, I'm longing for you.
See, It's only my soul I know I'm abusing,
it's torn and it's shredded and all my own choosing!
I welcome the fire for the tongues of flame have enveloped me and I am not harmed. God saw all of this and She spoke just a single word, "fifteen". What does this all mean?
In a stone house, overlooking the Irish coast at Skibbereen, Margarita stood looking out to sea when a premonition overtook her. She had always heard of the "sight" from her mother but had never shown any talent in the mystical family gift at all. In fact, she had been embarrassed for years trying to guess at cards but always failing. A heavy sensation seemed to be pressing on her chest and her blood had turned to ice water. She began to shake with a chill when she seemed to leave her body and found herself standing on the rocky promontory, jutting out to sea just north of her home. In her vision she saw a small ship sailing toward the rocks at reckless speed. She tried to yell a warning but realized no sound was coming from her mouth. She stood petrified as the ship moved ever closer to the boulders. When she remembered this was simply the "sight", she willed herself onto the deck of the vessel. The crew was looking in the wrong direction, distracted by a school of dolphins jumping out of the water with glee. Margarita tried once more to yell a warning but found she could make no sound at all. It felt, to her, as if something was lodged in her throat. She coughed and a large silver pearl came rising up out of her mouth and into the sky shining as brightly as the moon! The sailors immediately turned toward the light and now facing the right direction spotted the rocks in time to sail around them and to safety. When Margarita snapped out of her vision, she turned and looked back out of the window in her home and saw the ship with the red flag moving back out to sea. She laughed to herself knowing her experience had been true and said a prayer of thanksgiving to The Mother. As she walked out of the door and into the sun, a ring of stars appeared around her head that could sometimes be seen when Margarita was in a particularly good mood.This story was told to me by Margarita's daughter who was also known as "my pearl".
Ave Virgo gloriosa, favo mellis dulcior. Mater Dei gloriosa, stella sole clarior. "Hail, Virgin most glorious, you are sweeter than honey. Glorious Mother of God, you are brighter than the sun."Standing outside a small adobe home in Chamayo, New Mexico, a small girl was confronted by a snake. The rattler was agressive and charged her. The girl, Rosalba, was bitten 4 times on her right leg. Her 68 year old grandmother, hearing the screams immediately said a prayer in Spanish for the girl to slow the deadly poison."And when I past by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thine own blood, LIVE; yea, I said unto thee [when thou was] in thine own blood, live!Ezekiel 16:6(translated from spanish by the author, any mistakes a completely mine)Rosalba was getting pale and the evil bites were changing to black around the edges. Her breathing was getting shallow. The grandmother was screaming for help, thinking God had abandoned her granddaughter...when the Virgin appeared.She was dressed in a red cape with silver fur around the collar. She was brighter than the sun. There was a sweet smell of honey and roses and lilies all around her and the grandmother, upon inhaling the fragrant perfumes, became quiet and calm.The Blessed Virgin picked up a handful of the dirt and rubbed it gently on the snake bites on Rosalba's right leg and speaking these words, "Child, get up for thy work has not yet begun", kissed the girl gently on both of her eyes. And then suddenly was gone.Rosalba leapt to her feat and told her grandmother that she would build a church on the site of her healing and that the dirt from that spot would be forever sacred because the Mother of God had touched it. She dedicated her life from that moment on to healing others.This is a true story.Later...
