title: A Walk with the Blessed Mother: Poetic Reflections on the Holy Rosary
author:  Carlos Miguel Martinez 
description: In 2002, I was involved in a life-threatening car accident that sparked my initial desire to write my testimony and initiate spreading spoken and written word of Gods infinite love, thus giving birth to this blog. In addition to writing poetry, medicine is another one of my great passions. Thank God, I graduated in August of 2011. I vibe to the arts, running, soccer, and yoga. My parents and my brother are my earthly connection to the Holy Family and --through God Himself-- the reason for my formation in the Catholic Church. Miss you so, Daddyo. This is for you.
zlib_text: Summon Spirit’s Cry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  MOTHER MARY FRANCIS, P.C.C.
  
  
  Summon Spirit’s Cry
  
  
  ![](images/00001.jpg)
  
  
  A Collection of Poems
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Illustrations by  
  Sister Mary Pius, P.C.C.  
  Newport News, Virginia
  
  
  Cover design by Riz Boncan Marsella
  
  
  © 1996 Mother Mary Francis, P.C.C.  
  Published by Ignatius Press, San Francisco  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 978-0-89870-573-7  
  Library of Congress catalogue number 95-79889
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To  
  my spiritual father,
  
  
  Most Reverend Augustine Cardinal Mayer, O.S.B.
  
  
  and
  
  
  my spiritual daughters
  
  
  who are to me  
  a jubilee of love.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Preface](index_split_005.html#filepos10755)
  
  
  [Acknowledgment](index_split_006.html#filepos12335)
  
  
  I. [Songs of Praise in Creation](index_split_007.html#filepos13347)
  
  
  Psalm for an Architect
  
  
  Concerning Doxologies
  
  
  Lord of the Marigolds
  
  
  Conversation with an Apple, Under the Crabapple Tree
  
  
  On Beholding a Field of Pink Lilies
  
  
  Summer Seminar
  
  
  Apology to a Fl