Sacrament Poems - Poems about Sacrament

Bliss as words like wine pour over a pure slate, staining it with their meaning and reddening it with their tones. Fervor takes over; the scene unfolds like something already decided as one letter follows another like drops from a chalice, dripping until it overflows. My neck is craned from fatigue and out of reverence as ideas become flesh before my eyes. Each word is holy— each...

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

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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 how to PowerOver rather than empower with and within Without CAPITALIZING EarthMatricide GenoCidal EcoCides...

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Nothing but horses on a merry go round, painted faces, costumes and lies based on facts. We’re all wearing masks that disguise us from ourselves more than others, making it so hard for anyone to really know at all what they want or need until they lose it. There is no typical or expected or proper or appropriate; only expectations of propriety and...

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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 just Alone, I am capable of but sin Despite this belief I...

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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 power of absolving from the sins committed after Baptism, because...

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It is a time to keep a reverent pace with the hymnal steps of the heart. The days are become processional, a folding of past raiment’s strained with the fabric of isolation, hardship, and loss. Rituals are more important as the year declines, as nights lengthen and settle into rumor and whispered lore. Hold high the votive lights of hope, cherish each child-like winter flowering warmed in...

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A fast depreciating currency, Pity arousing like an emergency His low earning not an excuse For a now irritating celibacy And choice of a lifelong recluse, Whose quitting ought to have been with immediacy! In closely knit societies the first outlaw, Easily emerging the night’s gossip served raw; In every ranking the lowly esteemed...

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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 received tentatively I said “Shall we shake hands?” She looked down...

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ROMANTIC SACRAMENT Send me not roses Carafes of wine Send me Your words Of love divine. Send me not jewels Encased in gold Send me Your words My heart will hold. Send me not silver In purple so plush Send me Your words Oh, make my face flush. Send me not silks Of shimmering dyes Send me Your words Bring tears to my eyes. Send me not song I sleep close to death But...

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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...

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Outside of spiritually empowering meditation is nature's organic liturgy of creation more positively enlightening than degenerative dogma. Within liturgical ritual awaits spirited medication healing win v lose, left v right, yang v yin, inhale v exhale, ego v eco inside v outside below v above before v after wounds, Reconnecting our bicameral bilateral binomial potential for win/win resolutions, resiliently resonant Natural sacraments causing effective causes with spirited regenerating intent holy as holonic iconically interconnected Analogous metaphors inside ecological theologies outside neurological biology, polypathic history...

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(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....

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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 to recall His valor. Securing the Spirit for our choices Arming us...

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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 ...

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