Lourdes – the place of the feminine

The place of earth and water –
Of the birth of healing-life from a cave –
Of the celebration of relationship –
The place of the body –
The place of the ordinary –
The place of touch and of the senses and of woundedness –
The place of pain and emotion and of compassion –
The place where spirit and matter come together in body prayer –
The place of the Woman.

                                                                         Mary Dunn