{"id":1272,"date":"2026-09-08T01:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2026-09-08T01:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:19:15","slug":"september-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/september-8\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTEMBER 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1273\" src=\"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9aa97382-45df-4f0c-af4d-9cb5d08d5269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9aa97382-45df-4f0c-af4d-9cb5d08d5269.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9aa97382-45df-4f0c-af4d-9cb5d08d5269-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9aa97382-45df-4f0c-af4d-9cb5d08d5269-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*AND IN HER MORNING*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nThe Virgin Mary cannot enter into<br \/>\nmy soul for an indwelling. God alone<br \/>\nhas sealed this land as secretly His own;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but being mother and implored, she comes<br \/>\nto stand along my eastern sky and be<br \/>\na drift of sunrise over God and me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">God is a light and genitor of light.<br \/>\nYet for our weakness and our punishment<br \/>\nHe hides Himself in midnights that prevent<br \/>\nall save the least awarenesses of Him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We strain with dimmed eyes inward and perceive<br \/>\nno stir of what we clamored to believe.<br \/>\nYet I say: God (if one may jest with God),<br \/>\nYour hiding has not reckoned with Our Lady<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">who holds my east horizon and whose glow<br \/>\nlights up my inner landscape, high and low.<br \/>\nAll my soul\u2019s acres shine and shine with her!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You are discovered, God; awake, rise<br \/>\nout of the dark of Your Divine surprise!<br \/>\nYour own reflection has revealed Your place,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for she is utter light by Your own grace.<br \/>\nAnd in her light I find You hid within me,<br \/>\nand in her morning I can see Your Face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, OCD (Jessica Powers)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers,<br \/>\nICS Publications, Washington DC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*AND IN HER MORNING* The Virgin Mary cannot enter into my soul for an indwelling. God alone has sealed this land as secretly His own; but being mother and implored, she comes to stand along my eastern sky and be a drift of sunrise over God and me. God is a light and genitor of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/september-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SEPTEMBER 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flos.carmelmedia.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}