Meditations
Easter Meditation: The Garden of Union
Arise, my love, my dove, my fair one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone, and the flowers appear in our land. The cooing of the turtledove is heard; the fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines, blossoming, give forth fragrance… Read Full Text
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Sacred Triduum Meditations
Below is a link to a page containing meditations for the different stages of our journey with Christ through his Paschal Mystery. If you desire, and can do so, I recommend reading them on the assigned days. I hope that you find they help you in some way to walk more closely with Jesus and our Blessed Mother through this most sacred time… See you on the other side! Holy Week Meditations Page
Poetry
Holy Week Meditation 3: The Garden of the Covenant
I. When open and empty hands, receptive, turn away from the ever-flowing gift, grasping for possession and control, they find themselves lacking what, before, they had in such great abundance, pure. Little children, infinitely loved, were our parents, Adam and Eve…and like them we are too… Read Full Text
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Holy Week Meditation 2: The Garden of Innocence
I. Eyes blinking in the sunlight, lungs expanding as they draw in breath, sensitive skin, new, innocent, like a child, delighting at the gentle breeze. Adam gazes into the sky, brilliant with celestial radiance, and penetrating everything below, the two, heaven and earth, united… Read Full Text
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Holy Week Meditation: Compassion
Integrity, my God, is tried in the crucible of suffering. It is deepened and grows, blossoming more fully through the experience of darkness and pain, stretching the heart beyond its comfort and ease, drawing it also beyond superficial contentment, not to lead it to a place of desolation and emptiness, but to a truer peace, a deeper joy, a more profound abiding in the depths of the heart, hidden, yet embracing all things… Read Full Read more…
Poetry
New Poem: Open, Empty, Upraised Hands
This is the poem that I read last night when I spoke at Saint Thomas, for those of you who asked about it. Hope you enjoy it! Moses ascends a hill as the battle rages below, stretching out his hands to heaven, arms uplifted. Interceding, full of love for his people, he becomes a channel of God’s grace for them… Read Full Text
Evangelical Counsels
New Poem: Virginal Love
Gazing upon the immense beauty, Father, that you have imprinted upon us in the gift of human sexuality, an incarnation of your own glory, of the intimacy between you and your Son in the embrace of the Spirit of Love, the question arises also: how is virginity a fulfillment of this gift?… Read Full Text
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New Poem: The Circle and the Cross (Part 3)
I. Abba, Father, let it be, this unspeakable mystery. Draw me, Father, beyond this superficiality, to the realm where all is gift, where my heart, touched by your Beauty within everything, yet beyond them all, is enfolded in the dynamism of your own eternal Gift… Read Full Text