Posted in Other Folks' Writing on January 13th, 2006 No Comments »
At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.
We are higher than heaven, more noble than the angels:
Why not […]
I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the
Trinity, through belief in the Threeness, through confession
of the Oneness of the Creator of creation.
I arise today through the strength of Christ with His Baptism,
through the strength of His Crucifixion with His Burial
through the strength of His Resurrection with His Ascension,
through the strength of His […]
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to […]
Posted in Life and Living on January 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Nietzsche declares that we have killed god. But what god have we killed? And why?
An argument is that we put all the good qualities into god, leaving behind only the bad qualities for us humans. If this is so, then a possible way to resolve (re-solve) the problem is to reclaim and absorb god — […]
Hail Mary
Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum. Benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostræ.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy […]
Posted in My Poetry on January 5th, 2006 No Comments »
If I could cradle your heart in my hands,
I could lift you over this flood
and set you lightly on a trembling dendrobium spray
high above the leaf-littered ground
cowling