Tag: Christianity
A Mother’s Love
The outside world is cruel and hard; To us the strangers’ doors are barred. But in this stable, small and cold, I’ve seen this miracle unfold. – I gaze upon your peaceful face Radiating heavenly…
Holiday Season in the Holy Land: Thoughts, Ideas, and Tips on Travel
The arrival once more of the winter holiday season evokes thoughts of snow and cold nights spent with family and friends – of times of cheer, rest, and meaning. There is perhaps no better way…
Flight of the Angels
They rise up in tornadic flight, Unleashing scarlet firelight. They pour it on the coal-cloaked hills, The bloodless frosts; their lava fills The starved blue gleam of Winter's eye And scalds dawn on the star-cold sky. -…
Cantate Alleluia (Sing Alleluia)
Christus est natus hodie; cantate Alleluia! Ille nos servare venit; cantate Alleluia! Guadete, populi mundi! Vester Rex vobiscum nunc est. Homo similis nobis etiam Deus. Gaudete magna cum voce! Cantate Alleluia! - Christ is born…
The Flame of Autumn
The dawn chill of autumn, Causing fog at the mouth when we speak - The pale sliver of sunlight, Turning the spider webs to crystal dream-catchers - The amber hay bales in the fields, Surrounded…
The Anointing of David: A Villanelle
The scent of oil is rising from my hair; The prophet’s words hurl flames upon my mind. Beneath the gaze of God, king’s crown I bear. - Before the prophet’s eyes my soul is bare;…
Ram’s Horns: Isaac Narrates the Sacrifice on Moriah
I was in a deep, sound sleep, enveloped by soft darkness, when someone shook me by the shoulder. “Isaac! Wake up, child!” I heard a voice, my father’s calling me.…
The Cave: Plato’s Fable and Christian Salvation
Picture men dwelling in a sort of subterranean cavern with a long entrance open to the light on its entire width. Conceive them as having their legs and necks fettered from childhood, so that they…