Archives - April 2022
The Opening of Eyes
April 24, 2022
(based on Luke 24:13)
They can
be forgiven
their blindness.
After all,
who expects
to see
a dead man
walking?
Their opening
of eyes
came
in the
breaking
of the bread.
What opens
my eyes?
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Sister Patricia Hayes
A Day Called Easter
April 17, 2022
(based on Luke 24: 1-12)
In the pre-dawn darkness
they worried their way
to the granite grave.
The whispered:
“How will we?” froze
on their lips
at the sight.
An open, empty tomb
and other-worldly words
of reminder, remember,
and resurrection
sent them scurrying
to the others
mary-questioning
the while,
“How can this be?
Huddled together,
amazed and afraid,
knowing and unsure,
they discussed:
“If Jesus’ words about
rising from the dead
were true,
than so were all the others.”
“Could it be,”
they mused, “we must
live, as Jesus did,
threatened with resurrection?”
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Sister Patricia Hayes
April Fool
April 10, 2022
Tiptoe
On a most unwelcome mat of crisp,
unyielding green,
April seems so tentative—
Shyly fingering the latch of March’s door.
Can’t she be a bit aggressive!
Impatient
of such diffidence, I almost
turn away
thinking to come back
at some much later day, when…
Listen
The persistent pounding
of a thousand, laughing crocuses!
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Sister Miriam Therese Putzer