Tabb Centenary Year VII

A quatrain by Rev. John B. Tabb.

The Purification

Where, woman, is thine offering,
   The debt of law and love?
“My Babe a tender nestling is,
   And I, the mother-dove.”

(p. 213, Religion: An Octave to Mary)

[The Roman Church celebrates the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple on Feb. 2, forty days after Christmas; in Father Tabb's day, the feast was called the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Mosaic Law stipulated from the poor an offering of two turtle doves or pigeons on the fortieth day after the birth of a son: see Leviticus 12:6-8 and Luke 2:22-24.]

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 02/02/09 07:35:00 AM
Categorized as Father Tabb Centenary Year.