Your exquisite bright blue eyes
are soft and serene,
Beholding the remarkable
richness of God’s creation;
Your honey hair cascades
over your shoulders like a
Wonderful waterfall of God’s
ineffable, indelible love;
Yet you choose to be a
princess of holy poverty,
And your only wish is to
sweetly serve in simplicity;
You are a faithful friend to
the good Saint Francis,
As you both sacrificially surrender
to Jesus the Just;
You are a merciful mother
to the nuns of San Damiano,
As you guide them in purity
and prudence and peace;
You are a beauteous bride
to Christ the Courageous,
And your soul is bedecked with
the precious pearls of virtue;
As you fervently follow in the
footsteps of Our Loving Lord,
May we too live on in
the laudable light of Christ.