Celtic Lent
As the Baptist made the road ready for our Savior's Ascension May we make our souls ready through Lenten devotion and sacrifice. As Jesus spent 40 days and nights in the desert to purify Himself…
Tag: Lent & Easter
Passion and Resurrection
The shining marble of eternity’s home, Glowing furnace of pain’s desire, Lashed to the column of mankind’s woe Hung the Victim of Israel’s ire. – Crowned with the barbs of worldly conceit, Clad in vesture…
Mary’s Meditation
The world’s aged sunlight mottles my son’s tombstone in tarnished, dusty gold. I sit beside the cavern of rock where he lies. I stroke the cold, rough surface. I finger the damp, dead grass. I…
I Am: The Divine Mystery of the Triduum
I Am – The Maker of all Magic The Wisdom of the Salmon The Crispness of the Apple The Strength of every Tree – The Dancer in the Whirl-Wind The Scatterer of Star-Light The Growth…
Christ Our Light
The church is silent, dark and still, With emptiness that’s soon to fill. The altar is graced with lilies white, A pure and most refreshing sight. – The time has come; we turn to see…
A Desert with Roses: Ten Simple Resolutions to Enrich My Lent
Jesus I will . . . Be ever mindful of God’s love for me, and rejoice in it! I refuse to lose sight of how much God loves me, even with my sins and shortcomings…
Chrysalis: A Free-Verse Poem for Lent
I uncurl and fall still and sleepin the twilightuntil night comes . . . The windLashes.I am a threadbare rainbow,A brittle ship in a hurricane, Clinging to this twigThat is my harbor.Alone.Helpless until the wind…
It Begins with Light: A Londoner’s Conversion to Catholicism
I’m not a Cradle Catholic. I’m a convert. Actually, a fairly recent convert: I was received into the Church on Easter Vigil, 2013. I’m sure I wouldn’t have made it to this point without the…
Victoria Crucis (The Victory of the Cross)
Nonne, Satane, nos esse tuus putavisti? Sed Christus venit. Nos tuis catenis liberavit, Et in Caelo in aeternum regnat. Vade! Christus est Victor. Semper vincit; tu numquam eris. Hic victoria Crucis est. - (For those…