Power & Glory
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Perfect Sabbath (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI lay and looked up at the broken roof Which lately was my ambulance and door. The slackened ropes beside me are the proof Of friends’ success in bringing to the floor Their crippled burden: me, before the One Who yesterday had healed a leprous man, Who, sitting ‘midst the scribes, outshines the sun. I looked at Him, He motioned with His hand: “My son, thy sins forgiven are.” But they Conceived within themselves: “What blasp
Ubi Vult Spirat (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe mighty waters, heading home, are hard To pull against with out-of-Eden oars. The distant cool of Pishon being barred, These rivers curve through thorn and work and wars. And rower’s strength is vain when life has died! He rows in sin and merits not a gust. His father, mother, custom, law have tried; He still is unreformed. But with the just: A Gale is blowing, even in their sleep, Wheree’er He wills, and deep calls out t
Why Do We Pray the Magnificat in the Evening? (opens the original)
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Every day, as the sun is setting, people are praying the prayer of a young virgin named Mary: “My soul doth magnify the Lord…” (Luke 1:46)Over one million people are under a vow to pray this prayer every evening. These include the bishops, priests, deacons, monks, and nuns who have the obligation to pray the Liturgy of the Hours every day. Many lay people, without any obligation to do so, also pray this prayer in the evenings. If we look across the evenings of the centuries, we would see, by can
St. Thomas to His Father, Count Landulf (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedO my father, honorable Count, I will not be a son Of Benedict, not for a fault Of that God-hallowed one, But due to instrumental love I bear for poverty, Whom I beheld external to Cassino’s property. Father, The flaming brand I wish to hold The squinting world once saw, Borne by the Holy Dominic; Yes, in his mighty maw. My many brothers buffet me, Your sons do me entreat. To them I will not yield at all, Nor women of the str
Riding Like the Riding of Jehu (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published“Who is that rider riding hard?” Said Joram to his watchman guard. “Tis Jehu’s riding, ‘least it seems To shake the rafters and the beams! The rafters and the beams! The message rider that we sent Has not returned from whence he went. The second also, when he came, has turned and followed in the train. He followed in the train!” The watchman spoke thus to his lord. The king said, “Make, with mare and cord, My chario
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