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The Whoring Daughter
National Catholic Reporter, March 7, 2008 by Kilian McDonnell
The Whoring Daughter In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent to a town in Galilee ... Luke 1:26. Mister Sun, I ask you not to rise; today's the day. Soon it will show, and mother will know; women learn to tell before the belly swells. My morning vomit I've hid till now, like sweeping bits of garbage beneath the rug. Mother sees with her nose so I'm trapped in shame. Impossible to postpone the telling, but what words and where and how? Really now, can a daughter say to her mother, "I'm no slut and Joseph's not to blame, but I'm pregnant, though no man led me behind the shed? You see, mother, while I was busy in the kitchen with a pitcher of water I'd brought from the welt this angel of light appeared to say the Holy Ghost will shadow and rest upon me to make a child within my womb without the blanket or seed of any man. You and Papa are chosen vessels of a chosen daughter." Absolute madness. But it must be today.
--Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB
Collegeville, Minn,
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