Tag: #closetCatholic
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UNPLUG ( as in heaven)
I put the phone in a drawer for a day . So to put myself far away To be lone ,. But not alone Little tappings from the heavens came not like rain nor sun ray But timeless texts from Friends of yesterday I thought I traveled far away …
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CISTERN
A Cistern (thoughts at a lay Cistercian meeting) We are sitting around coffee and sweet cakes and fruits. Treats both foreign and local . We drink and nibble and we stare. We are instructed to stare . We are not staring at one another. We are to find Christ, then find He ” dwells among…
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i wanna see
Dear Father, I do not write to you often. I am here and you are there . I have yet to write a jot compared to all that you have written to me on paper and heart. But I begin. I begin to tell you what I am doing and thinking and well…….today feeling ,…
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Palms Sunday
We remember how you put palms in our hands, palms in our open ,naked hands. Hands that once tapped tapped keep tapping on wood and on flesh. Before these ritual cleansings and gloves ond trash Palms in our hands, hands that once lifted , opened drifted and dropped. We consider all our sins like deadly…
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Entrance Antiphon
“The biggest closet is the church “the old woman told the child. “But we cant go there Grammy ,the doors are locked” the child told the old woman. “I will take you to a secret one “the old woman whispered as they walked down the sidewalk. Today side by side they walk towards a chapel.…
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Live Stream
They said that I could not come and see you They said I could imagine you were here with me They said I should dress as if you were coming to see me They said I should put chair and cross and water out for you So I did , I dressed , I lit…