Short Ordination Poems

“Adam boy!” came Dad’s exclamation.
“Forgetting God? How I joyously, kindly looked…
Man’s Nicene ordination, Patriarch questioned!”
Response? Son, take up vindication- why?”...

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Greek= diakonos= helper
He is ordained for the ministry of the Word
Liturgy
Charitable works
Ordination includes authority
Baptize
Preach at Mass
Preside at the sacrament of Matrimony...

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The sphere of influence influenced me spherically
With no core
Left brained hemisphere confused
Like right handed athlete
Co-ordination on my medulla-oblongata 
Peripheral nervous system shuttered down
As cranial nerves refused to send impulses 
Failure to interpretation on my cerebrum
Lead to my confusion.

Response...

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Between the warm leaving rain
and the coming of the pizza –
a beer flushes through a gurgling gullet.

It's coming...Medium Margarita,
sweet roasted tomatoes and bubbling cheese.

The evening sky breathes deeper.
Womb-warm, the pizza-satchel sings
to my drooling taste buds;
a delivery almost born,
an ordination, almost consumed
by the wait.

I pour another beer....

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We don't watch telly,
we play games,
we have avatars
and gamer names.
We don't just glare,
we interact....
Helps co-ordination,
a proven fact.
We chat to gamers
on headsets too,
work as a team...
Plan what to do.
If you're good,
you're known as Pro,
in your gamer points
it will show.
Noob's the term
if you are new.
You wont be alone,
there's quite a few.
Play for a while
and you will see,
that playing games
outdoes T.V....

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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....

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He flagged me down
for a lift.
Those were the days when it felt safe
to pick up a hitch hiker.
Soon my eyes were watering
from the stench of urine.
“Where are you trying to get to?”
“Where are you going?”
I was on my way to see the Bishop
sponsoring me for ordination.
Should I take him there?
I pondered.
I dropped him near the city centre.

As with a message from an angel,
“Where are you going?”
has stayed with me
as a disciple of Jesus....

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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....

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