May Jesus gift you as you gift Him- with Heart and hearts!
A monastic custom is to choose an Epiphany Queen through the anonymous picking of a bean!
To honor the Queen poems are written.
Here is a sample:
EPIPHANY QUEEN
In the year of a Sesquicentennial
A time of great blessing AND JOY
On Epiphany eve the bean fell
Into hands who will well employ
Holy benefits we hope to enjoy.
Our Assistant par excellence is she
Whose sacred lot will be to share
Queenly customs and gifts that we
Receive from her royal hands with care
And a meal far surpassing daily fare.
Now of our Queen I dare speak
Of likes and habits well engrained
Doing the TIMES crossword each week
Scabbling with Sisters a weekend game
And Pink her royal color she doth deign.
Yet of all manners she doth proclaim
The spiritual one is valued most
A Eucharistic retreat she’ll obtain
To honor Jesus our Divine Host
So each to Him become most close.
One hundred fifty years we celebrate
Of serving Him in this Holy Place
So in this year we do designate
Our Sister’s Queenship to embrace
To lovingly guide us as we trace
Each of her regal steps towards Him
King of our hearts, Lover of souls
Filling each of us fully to the brim
With all the gratitude we can hold
For belonging to the Visitandine fold.