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Monday, December 22, 2025

Poem: “Listen, Daughter” Visigothic Prayer; 7th century

 Listen, daughter, and behold: 

you have become a daughter of your Son, 

handmaiden of your Child, 

mother of your Creator, 

bearer of the most high Redeemer.

The King has fallen in love 

with the splendor of your beauty 

and has deigned to prepare for himself 

a most pure dwelling in his world.

Obtain for us, therefore, from him 

who, taken by longing for you, made you his mother, 

to pour into us the wondrous sweetness of desire for him,            

so that we remain dedicated to his service in this life,

and our journey o’er, without chaos, we arrive   

with him who was born of you.

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