The Heart of Mary
COMPOSER’S NOTE
Every year my brother Andrew sends out Christmas cards with an original seasonal poem.
The poem for 2011 moved me so much that I immediately wrote this setting and presented it to my brother as a Christmas present.
The beautiful poem – inspired by the text from Luke 2 vv. 19 & 51 ‘But Mary treasured up all of these things and pondered them in her heart’ – pays homage to the Mother of our Lord as she treasures all things in her heart.
DURATION
3 minutes
CHORUS
unaccompanied SATB
YEAR OF COMPOSITION
2011
PUBLISHER
Novello
SHEET MUSIC
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Ponder the treasure, in your heart:
Gabriel’s message; the glorious dark;
the dangerous road and Joseph’s care;
the magi’s star; the shepherds’ prayer.
Ponder the treasure in your heart:
Simeon’s promise at the start of
what will prove your wounded way
by a piercing sword of a noon dark day.
Ponder the treasure in your heart:
the empty tomb; the Pentecost spark;
the spiritual fire that catches light
in all baptized by your Son’s life.
Ponder the treasure in your heart:
still full of grace you take your part,
as heavenly Mother, source of prayer
for all who seek God’s tender care.
Words: Andrew Hawes (1954 – )
