Leonard Cohen

 AMEN

Tell me again 
When I've been to the river
And I've taken the edge off my thirst
Tell me again
We're alone & I'm listening
I'm listening so hard it hurts

Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again 
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me you want me then
Amen

Tell me again
When the victims are singing
And laws of remorse are restored
Tell me again
That you know what I'm thinking
But vengeance belongs to the Lord

Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again 
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over

Tell me that you love me then
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen

Tell me again
When the day has been ransomed
& night has no right to begin
Tell me again when the angels are panting
And scratching the door to come in

Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again 
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over

Tell me that you need me then
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen

Tell me again
When the filth of the butcher
Is washed in the blood of the lamb
Tell me again
When the best of the culture
Has passed thru' the
Eye of the Camp

Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again 
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over

Tell me that you love me then
Amen
Amen
Amen

Amen

THE FLAME, Poems - Leonard Cohen

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018

Joyce Carol Oates

I SAW A WOMAN WALKING INTO A PLATE GLASS WINDOW

I saw a woman walking into a plate glass window

as if walking into the sky.

I saw her death striding forward to meet her,
shadowed in flawless glass.

Dogwood blossoms drew her, a lilac-drugged air, 
it was beauty's old façade,
blinding, 
blind: the transparency
that, touch, turns opaque.

The frieze into which she stepped buckled in anger
and dissolved in puzzle parts about her head.

•  •  •

I saw a woman walking into sunshine confident and composed

and tranquil to the last. 

I saw a woman walking into something that had seemed nothing.

As we commonly tell ourselves.

The trick to beauty is its being unassimilable,

a gallery of glittering reflections,

each puzzle part in place.

Not this raining of glass and blood

about the amazed head.

The unfathomable depths into which she stepped became 

the merest surface,

Pain and noise.

•  •  •

I saw a woman walking into her broken body

as if she were a bride.

I saw her soul struck to the ground  because mere space 

could not bear it aloft.

I saw how the window at last framed only what was there,

beyond the frame,
that could not fall.

My throat filled swiftly with blood:

you would not have believed how swiftly.

"THE TIME TRAVELER" Poems - Joyce Carol Oates
 A William Abrahams Book, 1989

Prayer

LORD JESUS CHRIST

SON of THE LIVING GOD

have mercy on me

a Sinner

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SALVATION belongeth unto the Lord

and thy blessing is upon thy people

Psalm 3

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REMEMBER not, Lord, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our sins: Spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever. 

Answer. Spare us, good Lord.

Let us pray.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

Christ, have mercy upon us.

Lord, have mercy upon us.

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen.

O Lord, show thy mercy upon us;

And grant us thy salvation.

Turn thy face from our sins;

And blot out all our iniquities.

Send us help from thy holy place; 

For thy indignation lieth hard upon us.

O Lord, hear our prayer;

And let the sighing of the prisoners come before thee.

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I love Thee, O Lord, my strength.

The Lord is my stony rock

and my defence:

my Saviour

my God

and my might

 in whom I trust;

my buckler

the horn also

 of my salvation

and my refuge.

Psalm 18

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Oh Blood and Water which gushed forth

from the Heart of Jesus

as a fountain of Mercy for us 

I TRUST IN YOU.

Jezu ufam Tobie 

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A TÍ DIOS PADRE OMNIPOTENTE

EN LA UNIDAD DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO

TODO HONOR Y TODA GLORIA

POR LOS SIGLOS DE LOS SIGLOS AMÉN

with Mary

in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

Amen

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Saint

Joseph said to me, 

"we couldn't have done it

 without you."

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Petra's Time

 

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The Book of Psalms