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
Time and a season, a marker in history - Dark truths coming home
Oak in an acorn
multiplications of leaves –
a world from a book
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Swallowing the Truth
Give me strength to hold the line
With a steadfast mind
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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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