Annunciation

Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb.  The final line of John Donne’s sonnet, “Annunciation,” speaks briefly, yet ever so profoundly, to the wondrous mystery of the prenatal beginnings of the Incarnation. Take a moment to ponder the purport of each word:  the weight and breadth of immensity,   the hiddenness and containment of being cloistered…