Lady of the Way

Lady, your presence
and prayer
make wherever we go
home and holy.

The stony tracks of Galilee,
Judea’s bitter hills,
the blood-flecked streets in
Jerusalem
reveal your holy way.

Your child is always with you,
cradled in your arms;
you place him in our care;
we are straw; take our lives,
love is in our care.

Andrew Bullen SJ

Ignatius the Pilgrim: Poems and Prayers, 2013