Ah-men, Ah-men, Ah-men, we respond after the consecration at mass. My mouth responds, but strangely, some days, I find my mind singing in tune – Ah-women, Ah-women, Ah-women. As for my heart – it is doing a duet (being all inclusive).
We are coming up to the month of May – Mary’s month but it is interesting that it begins with the feast of Joseph the Worker. Ah-men, Ah-women! Together in life and death -they made quite the team.
They knew joy (birth of Jesus), hardship (flight into Egypt), and grief (the death of Joseph). Through all of these times there was Jesus, the joy of their lives. Is this not true for all of us – Jesus in good times and in bad.
We have concluded the Lenten Season and have bounded out of Easter. Jesus is risen and invites us to do the same. Here is an invitation to joy. Are we up for it? Take off those mourning clothes, colour-up your days, spread the Word, Jesus is Risen and walks among us!
Ah-Men; Ah-Women.
Join Mary, Queen of the May; Joseph, her husband Patron of Workers; Jesus their son, brother, and Saviour of us all.
Hail Holy Mary Hail!
Hail Holy Joseph Hail!
Hail Jesus Hail
Ah-men – Ah-women
Hail!
Barbara Vaughan CSJ