He prayed:
—He once had meant to come on earth in
heavenly glory but we sinned: and then He could
not safely visit us but with a shrouded majesty
and a bedimmed radiance for He was God. So He
came Himself in weakness not in power and He
sent thee, a creature in His stead, with a creature's
comeliness and lustre suited to our state. And now
thy very face and form, dear mother, speak to us
of the Eternal; not like earthly beauty, dangerous