Best Sacrament Poems

The day of Pentecost, Church celebrated
Administered Holy Baptism
St. Peter declares
“Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit”

The apostles offer baptism to anyone who believed in Fr. Christ Jesus
You will be...

Continue reading...

(from The John Poems)

I absolve myself of loving you
and plead innocent
on grounds of loneliness.

My penance will be 
the poetry
I misguidedly wasted on you.

For I’ll never destroy it
though the idea tempts, and reading it,
I feel a fool;

A monument to me
and my stupidity.
My monument to you....

Continue reading...

From a valid marriage
Arises a bond between the spouses
Its very nature is perpetual
Exclusive
In a Christian marriage
Spouses are strengthened
As it were consecrated for the duties
The dignity of their state by a special sacrament.
(CCC 1638
...

Continue reading...

The crumb of bread I lift to lips
Is freighted in my fingers.
I squeeze it hard lest it slips
Reclaiming a past that lingers.

'Tis a weighty rite to partake
Tokens of His riven frame.
Freely given for our sake
Oft taken lightly to our shame.

Christ's counsel the priest voices
Imploring us...

Continue reading...

a vessel of earth and sky
proclaiming to possess
light and deepest depth
clad in the satisfaction
nearest to the wind
but then
dawning cloud like vestments
to walk safely in the seething mass
though by inclination none were needed
but to placate the malevolent
the sibling gods make a place to rest in gut
then...

Continue reading...

Sweet mother sweet mother send your child onto me for the sins of the unworthy must be babtized in blood and fear....

Continue reading...

Not long ago
Say, about 300 years
Two Indigenous tribes
Nearly disappeared
 
Others came
From year to year
Hunters, trappers
And future peers
 
John Sutter
A Swiss guy
This city became
The place to try
 
At Sutters Mill
Gold was found
In Coloma
Now ghostly grounds
 
But this place of new
With its foundations down
Pre 1849
It was just...

Continue reading...

The Sacrament of Penance (Confession) is a Sacrament in which the sins committed after Baptism are forgiven

The Sacrament of Penance or Confession remits sins and restore the friendship of God to the soul by means of the absolution of the priest

I know the priest has...

Continue reading...

heaven opened up once to the eyes of Man.  the reached up to the sky to be led by the hand.  but no one came.  no one came, no one came.  their eyes strained to see the twilight sun, the stars...

Continue reading...

When sun met moon in the sea, there was one voice that came to me.  it was a voice i heard once before long ago, belonging to an old man standing alone in the meadow.  his voice had not been used since ages...

Continue reading...

sacramental wine
	this in memory of me ~
		raindrops at sunrise...

Continue reading...

For happier me,
to healthier me,
with hotness We,
informing relationships 
emerge EarthBound sacred
co-invested communions
inter-religiously sacramental.

I do not insist
you share this integral worldview.

Yet, I do recommend
invite
exhort
prophesy
endorse
urgently proclaim
this holistic way,
trusted truth,
and loving life
merging past healthy resonance
toward future wealthy resilience

More clearly EarthTribe's land
of happiness and prosperity
when compared
to secularizing divisions,
perpetual debate
about...

Continue reading...

What but as bread, This appears to be
Is You, Lord, it’s truly Thee
It is You, Lord, I now receive
This is true, not just because I believe

My belief cannot create
Can’t sew a seed, give man a mate
Can’t fashion out of dust
One who knows You, merciful and...

Continue reading...

Matisse’s “Christmas Eve”
in a procession of candles

Through the church window
in the 20th century of faces
impaled gingerly
in velvet glow
flickering shadows against
the walls
an organ streams

Through the church window
lost cutouts found
humanity gathering
into a moment of flame

Even Godless poets
recall lifelong enigmas
of golden glow
recording the same search
the same wonderment...

Continue reading...

I was called 
to bring the Sacrament 
to a woman in fear 
with a nurse as chaperone
who earlier had guided her 
to the Hospital Chapel 
for fear of meeting a man
fear triggered 
by the gravity of past abuse.

The Sacrament of the presence 
of Jesus abused...

Continue reading...