Thought for the Day – 27 September – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) The Sacrifices of Life “The Saints looked for mortifications, humiliations, sacreifices; they desired to suffer to show their love for Jesus and to conquer the disordered inclinations of their bodies. By setting out on the way of penance of the Cross, […]
Thought for the Day – 27 September – The Sacrifices of Life — AnaStpaul
Awaiting the fall
Days lived on a precipice
My creator’s Grace
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Time and a season, a marker in history - Dark truths coming home
Our Father lives in the charged ether,
above and all around us
in splendid symmetry,
the source of life and love and healing.
The fabulous towers, the spires
and flowering tracery of organic design,
were all conceived and built by better men than us
in an age of gold.
These, the natural avenues of life
in which our ancestors sat, goodness drawn down
into those cleansing naves
where the deep organ soothed,
where we took the true medicine, giving thanks,
not to some mystery or intangible presence,
but the reality of His environment, His conduit,
His soft conversation with us
which we have – nearly all of us –
forgotten, our memory blighted, expunged,
erased, while we plod obliviously
around the stark bare stones and ruined choirs
in awe of a shell, without ever seeing the whole,
the rich truth of the past
and future’s promise
in this penurious present.
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Sleep – and there is death
the ever silent shadow
Living is the breath
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