Autumn Leavings

Autumn Leavings

And if, as autumn deepens and darkens I feel the pain of falling leaves, and stems that break in storms and trouble and dissolution and distress and then the softness of deep shadows folding, folding around my soul and spirit, around my lips so sweet, like a swoon, or...
Fulfilled

Fulfilled

Human persons in every age, always and everywhere, whether they realise and reflect upon it or not, are in relationship with the unutterable mystery of human life that we call God. Looking at Jesus Christ the crucified and risen one, we can have the hope that now in...
God’s Music: Now and Then

God’s Music: Now and Then

Since I am coming to that holy room Where with thy choir of saints for evermore I shall be made thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.   While my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers,...

We share our wound

Less passionate, the long war throws Its burning thorn about all men, Caught in one grief, we share one wound, And cry one dialect of pain.   We have forgot who fired the house, Whose easy mischief spilt first blood; Under one roof we lie; The fault no longer...
The Last Post

The Last Post

  It is the last post of this life and the reveille of the next. Death is the end of our present life, It is the parting from loved ones; It is the setting out into the unknown. We overcome death by accepting it as the will of a loving God,               by...