Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Con EL
Con el Padre Clementisimo
our arms wide open
embracing the nations
el paisito
the hill and
holy bay
de aguas acholatadas
glittering
courtesy of the setting sun
In Blessing
Hallelujah!
Sunday, May 24, 2026
me
for man to act as if his soul did see the very brightness of eternity
for man to act as if his love did burn above the spheres, even while it's in its urn...
. . .
in this a man a Seraphim exceeds
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Gesù
disse loro: "Non avete mai letto nelle Scritture: la pietra che gli edificatori hanno riprovata e quella ch'e divenuta pietra angolare"
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Monday, May 11, 2026
Walt Whitman: "I Hear America Singing"
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deck-hand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The wood-cutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day --- at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Sunday, May 3, 2026
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Ozef Kalda, Leos Janacek and Seamus Heaney
Prayers
pour through my mind
like sand down
through an hourglass
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Isaia
✝️
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Revelation
I will put upon you none other burden.
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
And I will give him the morning star.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Behold I stand at the door and knock:
if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Thank You Father Paul
I prayed that
you might be strengthened
with all might
according to His glorious power
unto all patience and longsuffering
with joyfulness.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Friday, January 16, 2026
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Endeavour
The other side of the argument was equally trenchant. As Edmund Burke put it in the Commons, few could have envisaged the human miracle that had happened in North America in little more than a century. He asked his fellow MPs to imagine themselves transported to the year 1700. Now, look westwards, across the Atlantic:
There is America -- which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men an uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life.
Garrard, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2018
Friday, January 9, 2026
San Marco
Gesú : Vedi qualche cosa?
Cieco (apri gli occhi e disse) : Scorgo gli oumini, perché vedo come alberi che camminano.















