A Blessing for Everyone
May all of your illusions be shattered beyond your ability to reassemble them. May you learn quickly from your failures and successes....
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Fr. Dwight Longenecker
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
Nativity
Forget your Christmas cards and little crèche the cutesy donkey, sheep and shepherd boys. Put away the twinkle lights and all that trash;...
By James A. Tweedie
- May 24, 2022
- 1 min
Clay Pots
And yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay and you are the Potter. We are all formed by your hand. Isaiah 64:8 God takes a ball...
By Jeffrey Essmann
- May 7, 2022
- 1 min
Angels & Other Poetry
Angels Perhaps it’s simply age that makes it hard To recognize the world as someplace where An inner spirit once itself declared, A...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 16, 2022
- 1 min
Easter
Here, where winter never really comes, How so, this vast profusion of wildflowers, These waves of jasmine sweet upon the wind, This hum...
By James A. Tweedie
- Apr 14, 2022
- 1 min
Meditation on the Lord's Supper
His body hung upon the cross Like shattered glass Like broken dreams A brittle thing A fragile flower Crushed. His blood congealed the...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
- Feb 16, 2022
- 1 min
The Pilgrimage (St. Margaret's, Binsey, Oxford)
You have to pass through the distressing part of this mostly golden town to get there. You continue—pressing past Jericho and on through...
Translation
- Feb 8, 2022
- 1 min
Divinity by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Let all men be good, Noble and giving. For, that alone Distinguishes them From other beings Known in this world. Hail to the unknown...
By Adam Sedia
- Dec 12, 2021
- 1 min
Incense
A hundred tongues of smoke— Translucent wisps, lithe specters— Rise, snaking languidly, Curling, grasping like tendrils At the light they...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Annunciation
Here in a bright alchemy, history collides and combines with eternal things. The mundane is infused with mystery, and the dust and mud...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
The Gift of Lilies
If angels plucked up blossoms In endless, light-drowned skies, With curved sextuple petals Glowing radiant white, Pearlescent in noon’s...
By C. David Hay
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
Wings
Wings Oh, to catch the winds of flight, And soar where eagles go, To leave the woes of troubled souls Behind me far below. I'd listen to...
By T.M. Moore
- Sep 9, 2019
- 1 min
Dust
My soul clings to the dust. Ps. 119.25 How like the dust my soul can be. I see it sometimes, dazed and inattentive in a ray of light, or...
By James A. Tweedie
- Feb 4, 2019
- 1 min
The Pilgrim Path
From birth our mortal journey winds its way Through labyrinthine passages of time Where fate and fortune bid us climb The walls and...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 23, 2018
- 2 min
Father Hennepin and the Great Spirit
This concludes a third in the series of poems, based on the poet's journey to Niagara Falls. Read parts 1 & 2 & 3 here. Father Hennepin...
By Daniel Leach
- Mar 3, 2018
- 2 min
In St. Mary's Church — Fredricksburg, TX
High above the altar, looking down, The stained-glass angel smiles almost unseen, At generations passing through below, Some raise their...
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