Thought for the Day – 23 December – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) What Jesus Wants From Us “Let us contemplate Jesus lying on a rough pallet of straw in the manger.When we see Him looking at us, let us ask ourselves what it is that He requires of us.In fact, He wants many […]
Alone — this solitude pounds deafeningly between my ears. After the forgotten slap inducing that first sharp intake of air, to my first memory of a Dresden widow beaming down into the four walls of my pram, just what kind of oblivion did I inhabit; how does it differ from the misery gripping me now?
In this realm it is the sentence of every soul to be alone, even as flesh touches flesh, reaching the heights of ecstasy of mortal love. Soon it is over and the wails return, cursing the passion which ensnared this fractal of spirit in a world of its own.