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Goodbye George Wendt

George Wendt was an actor and he starred in "Cheers".
He loved to sit on that stool and drink plenty of beer.
He starred in many shows and movies but will be best remembered as Norm Peterson.
He attended Jesuit Rockhurst College and graduated with a B.A. in economics in 1971.
After he lived for 76 years, we're saying goodbye.
He was a unique man and it was his time to die.
People were fortunate to be able to see him act.
When I say that he had talent and skill, it's a fact.


[Dedicated to George Wendt (1948-2025) who died on May 20, 2025]
Form: Rhyme

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
                    a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped a joyride 
                                to juicy jukebox jabbering 
in jackal jackboots 
                         from nearby jungle 
                     
Dr Jekyll clasped a jackknife eating 
                                  jambalaya to justify a 
                             juggled juxtapositional 
jurisdiction jamming 
       as jugular vein jingled jewels 
joyfully jauntily jaywalking 
                 to a jay named Jim Jolly ! 

Onward he jumped to a 
                                   Jungian junction 
              Jupiter jocund watching his 
 journeying joints
              journalese seemed a jibe jig
but neither Jewess, Jesuit 
                            or jeweller jiggled this job

So he jerked his jess 
                          like a jape for Japan
Jejuning onto January for the 
                           next jangle of jasmine 
 
No jellyfish was Dr Jekyll in Jordanian jerkin 
           though sometimes Mr Hyde
                   with jeroboam swirling alongside !


Premium Member Blind Faith

They think that, when you hear the gospel, you start working, creating by your own strength a thankful heart which says, ''I believe.'' That is what they think true faith is—Martin Luther

Your faith is not blind
Change is what you’ll find
Submit
now, your troubled mind
Genuine and kind
Admit
all bad acts, unbind
Re-born!  A refined
flame lit
  
God ‘s soldier commit
Good works, Jesuit
Faith is
everywhere, we sit
on a chair made fit
With this
a carpenter’s wit 
Blind faith like hell's pit
Amiss

Holy Spirit bliss
The humble He gifts
Mankind
righteousness is its
divinity’s kiss
Remind
us of His promise
Paradise justice
designed
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Easter Blessings

This Easter we honor God’s Holy Son,
Who willingly,gave up His very life!
So that human beings could live an
eternal one.

Christ had his Calvary, and each of us,
We will have ours.
Not one of us are perfect, but we can, by His laws live.
To earn a place in heaven, to spend glorious hours.

How He endured such pain for all mankind, still stuns me!
He forgave all who there who were responsible for His 
most horrendous death.
But retained his divinity, as part of the most divine Trinity.


4-15-2022

Dedicated to the Jesuit priests and nuns of the Sinsinawa Order!
Thank you for an outstanding education..
Form: Rhyme

Evangeline

Buttercup as an anemone, I see my bonbon 
In the midst of a wharve spin,
Graciously thin languette,
Ecclesiastic, a true coquette,   
Offered for a handful of sequin
On the 1000-thread linen, rests Evangeline!

Shine the uptown shrine with whispering vocal cords
As the frock is overcome with a slow descend,
Never mind the sallow ambience of
An ageing Jesuit mission, or thereof,
Words of prohibition annulled by disparlure:
Madame! – as they say, I don’t kiss-poor.
 
My appearance, utterance of faith,
Expected and grandiloquent,
Clasped the mortification with inflamed blood,
Yet budding desire, instantly prescribed,
Not to let it out of my sight.
But to greybeard wonderful torrents of luxury,
About to 5G live-stream this imperious rite  
Will put a stop to any cavil,
A cue in hand to excite ’n’ appease the inner devil,
I abide the coming, Evangeline!

Cordial satisfaction, marvellous plantation of joy,
Memento mori, I must this very moment, I must die.


Thomas Cottam

He was born to Protestant parents
and became master of a grammar school.
In London, he was converted 
to the faith of original Church.

In Rome, he became Jesuit novice.
Soon after he was ordained a priest,
desiring to become a missionary to India.
He returned home to recuperate from sickness.

In England he was arrested
and condemned to death because of faith.
After being tortured, he was executed –
the witness to Christ Church.

He is blessed spirit,
missionary of mercy,
achieving miracles
even in the city of Gotham.
Form: Verse

The Puppet Masters

You all know that everything
is not as it seems,
wondering who is working
behind the scenes,
so its time to put on our 
thinking caps and glasses,
to get an idea of who could be
the puppet masters,
could it be the two candidates
are just like a Pinnochio,
with someone who mentored
both of them behind the
curtain during the show,
someone or some people
who are "more in the know",
they give the two candidates
much of their advice,
and when one of them become
president,
better heed it or they could
lose their life,
these mentors are just like
a Gepetto pulling their strings,
much like a Jesuit Illuminati
in a bad dream.

Alexander Briant

He was raised Protestant –
later, upon studies,
he converted to Catholicism
and became a Jesuit 

as is current pope Francis.
He labored with zeal
after ordination,
proclaiming true religion to all Nations.

With six other priests he was arraigned 
on the charge of high treason
and condemned to death by an English court.
He was subjected to inhuman tortures and executed.

In prison, he converted
many fellow prisoners,
imprinting the cross of Christ
on their minds.
Form: Verse

Edmund Campion

In his youth he became an Anglican deacon,
but the doubts about Protestantism beset him
and after further study,
he returned to Catholicism.

Young Jesuit priest,
arrested by priest hunters
in Anglican England 
for teaching about the Christ.

He was convicted of high treason
and executed in England,
which had been  Catholic for a 1000 of years,
later religious difficulties arose.

Priest Campion said before his martyrdom:
"In condemning us, the Catholic priests,
 you condemn all your own ancestors, 
all our ancient bishops and kings…”
Form: Verse

Thomas Garnet

He was executed in London
for his catholic faith.
Priest murdered
“in the majesty of the law”

in a treacherous country.
Is this your tolerance,
making judgments
on human conscience.

“After ordination he wandered from place to place
to reduce souls which went astray
and were in error as to the knowledge
of the Catholic Church”.

In this whirl of persecution,
another Jesuit priest was murdered.
All his guilt,
was being a catholic priest.
Form: Verse

Derailed

He wanted to spend a life of chastity             
so off he went to a Jesuit seminary                    
till he saw pretty damsels during communion       
and out the window flew his cherished vocation!
Form: Rhyme

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