Tag: Exalted Felicitations of the Day!

The Presentation in the Temple

I like to meditate on the Presentation (when Mary and Joseph took the baby Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days after his birth to complete Mary’s purification after childbirth,

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A Poem for Labor Day

Brass Spittoons By Langston Hughes Clean the spittoons, boy.      Detroit,      Chicago,      Atlantic City,      Palm Beach.Clean the spittoons.The steam in hotel kitchens,And the smoke in hotel lobbies,And the slime in hotel spittoons:Part of my life.      Hey, boy!      A

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Since It’s My Birthday…

I am giving myself up to lazy jollification… And letting G.K. Chesterton do the writing today: Our Birthday From G. K.s Weekly, 21st March, 1935.This was written on the occasion

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Pentecost

Today we feel the wind beneath our wingsToday  the hidden fountain flows and playsToday the church draws breath at last and singsAs every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.This is

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