Category: holy week

IX – The GardenIn lunar brilliancy they walking showmid leafy branches’ budding scented bloom& grasses warmed in vernal sun now groomGethsemane, in paschal light aglow. We waiting here, he forward goes for roomTo falling, praying, moaning, sighing, bledTo sobbing, straining, weeping, sweating, redTill far away is heard the tramp of doom Apostles wake upon their…

VIII – EucharistHe wash’d their feet & now would make them free:a mundane miracle will now combine.The God-Man bids that man on God will dine& daily service now makes unity. These common building blocks of bread & wineour Saviour takes into his holy hands& those, around him sat, his love commandsin mystic rites to make…

VII – The Washing At Table: Christ Mandatum Novum do to us that we in love should brothers hold as He embodies love for us. Thus bold in love the nations seeing might him know. Example: washing feet in servant’s mold! To each apostle come in turn: St Pete refuses God now kneeling at his…

V Spy Wednesday – JudasNow Judas thief & liar, devil, friendHere come I carefully to you: for pot& kettle are both black. & we are notThat far I think each from the other’s end. The Priceless One you sold for not a lot:the price of one escapéd slave. Yet Ijust any petty lust or care…

III Holy Monday – Pharisees Ye scribes & lawyers, hypocrites ye brood of vipers: pharisees who twirl the law to lure a proselyte into your maw then spit out worse; within your precepts stewed! The Torah’s words from out your crooked craw draw obligations far too hard to bear. Our God’s Revealéd words for making…

Prelude O Lord always majestic is thy name. No man may sing thy praises worthily & mould’ring – wanting words to hear & see is often in believers’ hearts thy fame. Still yet we try with prose & harmony to render mysteries in physic’s space: depicting love as icons show thy face to offer latria…