“What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” Thomas Merton
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deep in the cathedral
love resounds
through the bright air
of paradise
love rebounds
playful, full of
prayer.
Oh, hear the organ’s
profundo ring
laughter
as love pierces
your living heart
as, prostrate,
love breaks open
your breathless soul.
(18 November 2013 on the ordination of my brother)
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