Support where it is needed

Support where it is needed

Fount of mercy, Call back the one who flees from you. Draw towards you the one who attempts to escape. Lift up the one who has fallen. Support the one who is standing. Guide the one who is on a journey.   Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), Opera...
The act of a good priest

The act of a good priest

This noble example to his sheep he gave That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught; And it was from the Gospel he had caught Those words, and would add this figure too, That if gold rust, what then would iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust No wonder...
The writing on the  wall

The writing on the wall

Silence like a cancer grows And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning, In the words that it was forming, And the signs said, ‘The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls, And...
What I do is Me

What I do is Me

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves – goes itself; myself  it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came.   I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his...
Distracted from distraction by distraction

Distracted from distraction by distraction

This twittering world Only a flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces Distracted from distraction by distraction Filled with fancies and empty of meaning Tumid apathy with no concentration Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind That blows before and after...