It’s time once again for Sunday Snippets. We are Catholic bloggers sharing weekly our best posts with one another. As for me, I am a wife of 51 years, a mother of two beautiful daughters, a Sinai nurse (NYC – 1962), a photographer 0f sorts (photo-jo.smugmug.com) a writer (poet in awe of God). Prayer and daily Mass … Continue reading
The Banquet
You who eat to gladden your gut, You who indulge to comfort the flesh, Come to a true banquet! Rejoice your spirit, Give joy to your soul. Fatten your prayer on faith. Let words ravish the Heart of God. Even words unspoken, but burning in your heart, Call angels to your side. Quiet the world, … Continue reading
Tears’ Requite
Awash on shores of errant heart, Crystalline soldiers wend their depart. The battle o’er, the mend begun, Hovering Spirit break forth thy sun. You tugged as moon on ebbing tide, To etch and burrow as to chide, But than as swells of billowed lace, You left a smile of radiant grace. To purge my soul … Continue reading
Sweetly Count Our Hours
Lord, I’ m offering You a new day. Already, You know, ‘this isn’t going to be pretty.’ I count on You to do what You have always done. Take the morsels which Your hand has touched. As for the rest, with one mighty exhalation of Holy Breath Spirit the chaff away. At day’s end, as … Continue reading
Set the World Aright
The world, in turmoil, convulses. Peoples flee. Those who know You, Run to You. Those, who are rushing To the pit in despair, Flee from You, As from Leviathan. Show forth Your Truth and Beauty. Stop sinners in their flight. Smile, as the Sun from heaven, That all men may truly see, And all men … Continue reading
