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Handmaiden to the King
All I have known
Has possessed me,
The world and the men
Who walk its way.
All I have known
Ruled my heart
And burned on its altars
The wood of my life.
Now, You give me gold,
And open the door
To Your Kingdom,
To enter through my heart
Into Your Heart.
The fire that once
Consumed my wood,
Now, fires the gold You give me
To shape and fashion
A daughter of faith
Alive for You and in You,
Earthy flesh, taking on heaven,
As Your Spirit wants,
And woos and waits,
Upon the handmaiden
Of grace and virtue
You are creating for Yourself
As Bride to the King.
All I now know
Possesses me
For all I know is Thee.
© 2013 Joann Nelander All rights reserved
Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival
Hello, and welcome. We are a group of Catholic bloggers who gather weekly to share our best posts with each other. Join us to read and contribute if you like. Make sure that post links back to Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival. Don’t forget to leave a link to your post on our host, at RAnn’s site, This, That and the Other Thing.
Here are my contributions from the past week:
National Shame
Pour Forth New Day
Ring Out, Wild Bells – Happy New Year !
Host upon the Altar
She Survived Hitler And Wants To Warn America
Yad Vashem–Honors to Cardinal
Teaching and Love Extraordinaire
Prayer For Daily Neglects
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with all its love, all its sufferings and all its merits.
First — To expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during all my life. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Second — To purify the good I have done poorly this day and during all my life. Glory Be, etc.
Third — To supply for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and all my life. Glory Be, etc.
Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival
Hello, and welcome. We are a group of Catholic bloggers who gather weekly to share our best posts with each other. Join us to read and contribute if you like. Make sure that post links back to Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival. Don’t forget to leave a link to your post on our host, at RAnn’s site, This, That and the Other Thing.
Here are my contributions from the past week:
2012 Landscape Dreams Photo Contest Winners
Babe of All Perfection
Prayer to the Powerful Babe
The Shawl of Prayer
Rejoice! Gaudete
The Shawl of Prayer
Death walks;
Brandishing fear, it stalks.
The faint of heart succumb.
None but the tried remain true
In vigil, wed to You.
Where comes the glue
To see it through,
The fortitude to stretch to the measure,
Stand tall,
When others fall?
Fast and pray
You’re want to say,
Gather yourself, putting not aside,
The Shawl of prayer
That incense fill the air.
Battles are bought,
With Christ’s Blood fought.
Altar of Sacrifice lowered from heaven
Priestly prayers and words divine
Transform proffered bread and wine.
Humanity purchased on a tree
Celebrated remembering Thee,
Death defeated and fear it’s victory denied
Grace carries the least able
To Heaven’s Feast at Eucharistic Table.
©2012 Joann Nelander
Be Holy! 