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A Lamentation and A Prayer
O Father God, the world thinks it has no need of you. I think they are wrong. For it is not really you that they reject, but the caricatures of you that are painted in black and white by some who claim to know you. I think that I know you, but only in glimpses [...]
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The Baptismal Covenant and our Rule of Life
Our life in apostolic witness is a full affirmation of our commitment to Baptism. In the community of the baptized that is the church, we are called not to better or more profound commitment to what is asked of us in Baptism, but instead to a visible and more deliberate witness to what the Baptismal [...]
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A Eucharistic Prayer for Justice (long version)
Written in 2005 for use at my parish. Please feel free to use as you wish and as your Bishop has permitted. But let me know! The people remain standing. The Presider faces them and sings or says May God be with you. People And also with you. Presider Lift up your hearts. [...]
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The Vow of Obedience
It is important for us to realize in community that we are not held together by the truths and certainties that we possess, but rather we are bound by what we lack in ourselves and in our finite natures. We are bound together by our common struggle to find meaning and to seek Christ, not [...]
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Four Short Dances with Death
I. Breathless Winter, white fire – Pale and hardened, kisses My lips with jagged teeth, pearls of Night shade. II. Softly, The radiant Nightfall drinks my heart, A thirst not easily quenched By stars. III. At dawn, Inhuman fire, The intransigent Moon catches the dew winking from The grass. IV. You, God, Bitter to the [...]
The Holy Scriptures
We are a people of the Book. The Bible is our document, it is our history. We, as an apostolic religious community may feel free to claim it as our own, in as much as it is the book of the whole family of God. It is from the Book that we gain our understanding [...]
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Cantos On the Crucifixion: For a Lost World
XXXVIII. On the thirst of trees Complicity is written in a silence As hollow as an echo Or a barren tree. Here, where a brittle rain falls, Softly, softly And drinks away the thirst From needy lips, And wipes away Reflections from our creased And haggard faces And our silent tongues, The word was spoken [...]
Cantos: On Palms – For a World Rejoicing
XXXI. On the sun’s reign Behold, this passage Through a joyful land, Where the sun-song sweeps Across the downy fields, And, although still unseen But for the blue of sky The stars rain praises Soft upon the ground In honor of the daylight’s sway. And all the many leggéd beasts Gather at the roadside whispering [...]
A Prayer by Oscar Romero
It helps now and then to step back and take a long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the [...]
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