Book Review: Good News, Bad News

What do I know about conversion? Twenty years ago I walked into the Jesuit dining room at Georgetown University and accosted a startled priest, Fr. Dave Wessels, with the announcement that I wanted to talk about Catholicism. I'd been involved… Read More

Book Review of Good News, Bad News

What do I know about conversion? Twenty years ago I walked into the Jesuit dining room at Georgetown University and accosted a startled priest, Fr. Dave Wessels, with the announcement that I wanted to talk about Catholicism. I'd been involved… Read More

The Resurrection

What miracle was made inside the tomb?What transformation, wonder of deliverance?What tree of Jesse growing from what stem?What new creation rising from a chrysalis?
As I am blind to see inside a stone,Deaf to hear the music of the dawn,Touchless… Read More

The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord

I thought I saw the risen birds fly upBut they were only fallen leaves — a gustOf southern wind had made them whirl and leap — The men around the Crucifix were ghosts
Who disappeared like smoke when flames go… Read More

Twelfth Station

Jesus dies on the cross
Silence in the morning, day must break,God Himself be fastened to a stake;Who is worthy to be here, to seeChrist abandoned to a naked tree?Sorrow's children, offspring of disgrace,Why should you be witness to His… Read More

Thirst

The holy well is lost or never wasThough we have drunk the water of it, noneCan tell you where to find it now — Lost spring, lost consolation, and we thirstLike Christ who hung for hours in the sun
Well… Read More

The Tenth Station

Jesus is stripped of his garments
Here's a world of cruelty and steel — Where else could the innocent be strippedAnd not arouse a terror of the angels — In what prison is their justice kept?
Come and help Him… Read More

Seventh Station of the Cross

Jesus falls the second time
He falls a second time, as if the earthWere reaching for His flesh, as if the darkWere flowing from the tomb to clutch his heart -How close is death when evil does its work
Listen… Read More

Third Station of the Cross: Jesus Falls the First Time

Did He fall alone, or me and you?There came a dimness in the sky, the dovesThe Temple keeps for sacrifices flewIn rapid desperate spiralings aboveThe tortured prophet of unceasing love
‘Up and stand', the Roman soldiers said.They pulled Him up… Read More

First Station of the Cross: Jesus Is Condemned to Death

(Pilate to himself)
A raging mob?  I'd rather face the beasts –At least a lion killer has a sword;But this is rabble maddened by the priests,Held at bay by nothing but my word
Stink of breath, of rage, of something… Read More

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