Verse
O
Holy Mary, Help Us Go Against the Grain
O Holy Mary, you help us to receive the Sermon on the Mount,
Those beatitudes much talked about but seldom applied,
Because they go against the grain, as if the Gave river in Lourdes
Were flowing backwards up the glaciers of the Pyrenees.
O Holy Mary, you help us to become the people of the Word,
The people of the Eucharist, the people of the message.
What is the use of going faster, if we do not know where we are going?
What is the use of producing more and more, if we do not know how to share?
What is the use for the poor to get richer and for the rich to get poorer,
If neither one nor the other knows how to live like Christ?
O Holy Mary, in a world dominated by money, you teach your generosity,
In a world of glitz and lies, you show your transparency,
In a world that sneers and soils, you offer your purity.
Teach us how to avoid being a fully printed page;
But instead, a blank page, where the Holy Spirit can write down
All the wonders He performs in us.
Those beatitudes much talked about but seldom applied,
Because they go against the grain, as if the Gave river in Lourdes
Were flowing backwards up the glaciers of the Pyrenees.
O Holy Mary, you help us to become the people of the Word,
The people of the Eucharist, the people of the message.
What is the use of going faster, if we do not know where we are going?
What is the use of producing more and more, if we do not know how to share?
What is the use for the poor to get richer and for the rich to get poorer,
If neither one nor the other knows how to live like Christ?
O Holy Mary, in a world dominated by money, you teach your generosity,
In a world of glitz and lies, you show your transparency,
In a world that sneers and soils, you offer your purity.
Teach us how to avoid being a fully printed page;
But instead, a blank page, where the Holy Spirit can write down
All the wonders He performs in us.
Cardinal Roger
Etchegaray
May God bless you!
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