Monthly Archives: September 2019

Rosarium Mysteria Gloriosa (The Rosary with Glorious Mysteries)

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Darkly Here

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Though I perceive myself without You,
I could not reach for You, as I do,
But for You.
Therefore You are with me,
In my waiting,
In my hoping,
In my believing.

Never alone in my great wanting,
Satisfied in my enduring,
Tomorrow felt in my longing,
Smiling with every tear.
I am of high and holy cheer,
Believing You are near,
Certain You are darkly here.

©2016 Joann Nelander.

 


			

	
	



				
					

	

		
Benediction


				

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I reach for You in the night,

On my bed, desiring.

Knowing You present in the darkness,

Watching, loving, desiring me.


As I look to You,

My desire grows,

Believing I can attain You,

You, Who are beyond me of myself,

An impossibility on my own,

Yet I invite and hope, believing.


Presuming not the power of myself,

But wholly choosing You,

My Honored Guest, my Holy Quest

I beg Your residence eternal and supreme.


Prepare me for the Day

Of Your Perfect and Perpetual Presence,

When faith and hope are fed and satisfied

At the Banquet of Abundance.


Rejoicing and hungry no more,

Possessed and possessing You,

The end of my prayer,

Forever new ,

Forever beginning ,

Forever Day,

In the Eternal Now,

Then to live Life and Love,

Forever Knowing.


© 2016 Joann Nelander

			

	
	



				
					

	

		
Monday in the 25th week of Ordinary Time, About Today


				

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The Cross and the Furnace,


				

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I want to spend my day loving You

And embracing life as You send It to me.

Nothing comes but by Your Will,.


Not that I haven’t thwarted Your Will.

I have!

I know I have,

But even as this moment

Bears the imprint of the hammer,

That struck the nails impaling You on Your Cross,

The Cross remained Yours,

And Your All Holy, All Chosen Will,

All of Your choosing

From the beginning of Time.


You are above Sin,

Above my sin and error,

The New Adam,

Obedient to the Father,

A Trinity of Union,

In Love.


By the Will of God ,

And the hand of man,

All infraction of the Divine Will

Was nailed to Your Holy Cross.

In You, I die to Sin,

And rise to live Your Dying

In my day.


In You,

Given for Men

Given for me,

I live God’s permissive Will,

Fashioned for me,

In the purifying furnace

Of His Perfect Will.


In this new day,

I choose the Cross and the Furnace,

I choose You,

Who are forging a union of hearts,

Perfect Love loving Man,

Desiring the perfection of every man,

Loving and perfecting me.


(C) 2016 Joann Nelander

			

	
	



				
					

	

		
High on Your Cross


				

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High on Your Cross,

All the world lay at Your feet,

Broken!


The Body of the Christ is broken,

Broken for us.

The Body of the Lord is broken,

Broken to redeem.


The Father has placed under Your Feet,

Your enemies,

His enemies.

You, broken on the Cross,

Embrace Your enemies,

Willing to Love them into Life.

Inviting my free will to choose Him Whose Heart

Breaks for me.


The Earth quaked at Your Dying,

To open and receive Your Blood.

Grace, all Grace!

High on Your Cross,

With me at Your Feet,

My heart breaks to receive You.


Broken Body of Jesus,

One with me in Redemption,

Mine.