A Snow Globe and a Discarded Child
A dreaming child peers into a little glass dome Where snow falls upon a tiny world: A mountain, a forest, a tunnel, a village, a train A kingdom where there is safety and love …
A dreaming child peers into a little glass dome Where snow falls upon a tiny world: A mountain, a forest, a tunnel, a village, a train A kingdom where there is safety and love …
The celebrant breaks the Body in two.The Body is broken.The celebrant is broken.The communicant is broken. Only the Word is whole: “This is My Body…” The celebrant breaks the Body in twoThat it may be…
Upon hearing a recording of the Orthodox Christian Monks of the Svetogorskaya Monastery A deep, slow stream of tones, of modes, of chants Where time and all eternity flow as one Through voices and…
An August day of dragging hoses, washing dishesWatching hummingbirds while doing the laundryPulling up the last exhausted tomato vinesFeeding the dogs and cats, mowing the lawns: The summery hours of heat and work and sweatConsidering…
For Reverend Raphael Barousse, OSBFather Raph - Uncle Bubby - on His Birthday Introibo ad altare DeiAd Deum qui laetificat juvenitutem meam You look into the mirror and ask yourself“Who is that old man staring…
Someone wrote that if you were a mile away from the Battle of Hastings (October 1066), you not only couldn’t hear any of it but unless you were in direct line of sight you wouldn’t…
No excuses, of course: we must get dressedIf death itself appears at the front doorWe would not want to be caught in our ‘jammiesOr in surrender flaked upon the couch We will wake up to…
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