Nuptial
by Mary Fabyan Windeatt
There was a bride (the Gospel goes),
But whom she married no one knows;
Or if indeed she ever had
A likely lad.
Yet does it matter if she be
A shadow in antiquity?
That no man knows her height and weight
Or what she ate?
For of all brides who are, and were,
No one has ever equalled her-
That misty maid from the East
Who gave a feast.
Who was so gracious that the Lord
Came down to grace her wedding board;
To wrest the wine from the water
And woo a daughter.
Alas, that modern brides are girls
In satins and synthetic curls-
That no man dreams on Cana's child,
Who sipped...and smiled.
I thought that this was an interesting poem that goes with the Gospel from this past Saturday (and the Second Luminous Mystery). I was actually working on a short story about the wedding feast at Cana when I first read this.
God Bless
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Monte Cassino, Italy
You have made us for Yourself, And my heart is restless until it rests in You. When I am completely united to You, There will be no more sorrow or trials. Entirely full of You, my life will be complete. -St. Augustine
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- God speaks to me in the language of all that is beautiful. It's going to take my whole life to learn how to live and risk and sacrifice and love.
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- The Bible
- Desiderata
- Life of the Beloved
- Three Cups of Tea
My friend is a stranger, someone I do not know.
A stranger far, far away
For his sake my heart is full of disquiet
Because he is not with me…
Who are you who so fill my heart with your absence?
Who fill the entire world with you absence?
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- Official Site of Communion and Liberation
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- The Dumb Ox
- The New Berchet
- Vitus Speaks
- We are Soldiers now...
- Whispers in the Loggia
There was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink.
"Why do you sell these pills?" [the little prince asked.]
"They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week."
"And what would you do with those fifty-three minutes?"
"Whatever you like."
"If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain."
Life is the most romantic of all adventures, but only those with an adventerous heart can understand this. -G.K. Chesterton
"Where are all the men?" the little prince asked. "It is a little lonely in the desert."
"It is also lonely among men," the snake said.
"It is also lonely among men," the snake said.
Monte Cassino, Italy
6 comments:
Spontaneous laughter is always the best. Like you can always tell when someone is faking it, you know?
Anyway, our sanitation level is hovering above nil, what with school starting again this week. : )
cool poem Sarah.
And I met your SP roommate. She's pretty cool.
God Bless
Crash is awesome. If you can stand the profanity y'all should watch it.
Michael, your idea about a group blog is great! Yeah, we could write about movies we see or books we read, or about the crazy stuff in the news, local and worldwide. Are any of you following the Alito story? It's pretty interesting. Anyway, are you going to start it up and then email us? Just let us know...
And have you read (or started) the book? It's one of John's (B), my dad'd, and my favorite books. I am in the middle of reading it for the 6th or 7th time. I'm getting together some artwork from it for my next post.
Great to hear from you all. Take care.
I was thinking about something that had to do with JPII and youth, along those lines. Or maybe a title of a F. O'Conner short story, like 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own,' or 'Everything That Rises Must Converge.' Random, I know. Maybe even a song title, like 'Hanging by a Moment,' or 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' (okay, not a song title but close enough).
Who's talking about weird personalities? Hey, we'll all add our own unique touch to the blog.
Oh, and I as reading the 'gallant knight' comments earlier, and I totally agree with Jen. Double true.
John, congratulations on getting in to TAC. I'll probably be seeing you there, if UD or CUA don't win me over.
'The Sound of Silence' or 'Sound of Silence' or 'Sounds of Silence'? That's a cool idea, though I kind of agree with Jen that it would be more original and unique to think of something ourselves. But if everyone is cool with the other thing, that's great.
I know the comment page is getting long; I'll try to figure out a new post pretty soon.
Hey, I love it! Either that or 'Soldiers of the Great War,' because the Great War is (besides WWI), in a sense, life itself. But just '...the War' is also awesome.
Great idea.
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