Thought for the Day – 24 September – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) Fundamental Facts “Eternity lies ahead.Where the tree falls, there it will remain.So it will be with us.If we have to our credit works of virtue and of apostolic labour, death will be for us, as it was for St Francis, the […]
Thought for the Day – 24 September – Fundamental Facts — AnaStpaul
Withering flowers
A temple’s sacred decay
Each moment is now
Copyright Francis 2022
Staring at four walls
The light remains eternal
Read between the lines
Copyright Francis 2021
We ran and ran
laughing headlong into the wind
which swept along the shore,
our arms held out like useless wings,
cheeks flushing with life and youth.
When we stopped
we could see where we’d been,
catching our breath
as the waves washed over our feet.
You held me and squeezed, your eyes
the colour of oceans
cool amid those blushing cheeks.
If moments are captured
and etched upon memory,
this was one such point in time
pivoting on eternity
How would the local accent have sounded then, say in 1500? Would I have understood them? More to the point, would they understand me? I doubt it, but I have a liking for old church doors.
This north facing example bears all the marks of being very old, probably late medieval, but I could be wrong. Look
at the tracery… perpendicular style?
The Elloe Recorder 