For day 9, we are asked to write a nonet poem, and Linda’s prompt for SoCS is “how.” This is meant to be kind of a joke (but also kind of not), so I might write another nonet(s) today, especially because they are fun. 🙂
Saints
This Meme Slapped Away Some Depression :)
The meme below made my day today. Nothing’s better than St.-Nicholas-slapping-Arius memes.
What else was there to do besides write a limerick about it? 🙂
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Timeless
A six-sentence story, also for FFFC #161 (picture below).
Hundreds of years ago, this church was filled with people each Sunday, with many worshippers every day of the week. Now, only the stained-glass windows hearken back to its former beauty.
Humility Is…
From my book The Wisdom of Fulton Sheen, which offers a different quotation for each day of the year, this is today’s:
Humility does not mean a submissiveness, a passiveness, a willingness to be walked on, or a desire to live in the doghouse. Humility is a virtue by which we recognize ourselves as we really are, not as we would like to be in the eyes of the public; not as our press notices say we are, but as we are in the sight of God when we examine our conscience.
For One-Liner Wednesday.
Which Saint’s Day?
Because my green shirt is in the laundry currently, the only green thing I had to wear today is a bracelet… featuring Saint Joseph! 😅 I wrote this triolet about it.
The Morning Started Late
Despite how hard it was to get out of bed this morning, it has actually been a good day, and I am so relieved to feel happy! Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, who is associated with healings, and I’ve spent a long time wishing that God would heal me, “pronto.” It still hasn’t happened to me, but I’m happy for every good day. 🙂 I wrote this sevenling earlier today. Continue reading
Echoing Our Lady
For Flashback Friday — this is a poem from a poetry notebook of mine that I haven’t looked at for a long time. Linked with JusJoJan. I wrote this on July 4, 2018 (I need to give myself credit so as not to commit plagiarism 🙂 ).
Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum:
Let it be done to me according to your word,
According to your gracious voice,
The most beautiful I’ve ever heard.
May trust rise up, that I may say:
Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum,
Your loving will is intricate,
weaving tapestries as on a loom.
I do not see the end result today,
Yet your eyes do, Craftsman full of skill:
Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum,
I do not know, yet you always will.
May your kingdom come, and not my own,
I abdicate my throne to give you room,
you are the rightful owner of this heart:
Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum.
The Annunciation, Leonardo da Vinci, via franciscanmedia.org
P.S. I’m grateful to myself for writing this because I had totally forgotten about it and needed the reminder about what is most important. 🙂 Hope you like it, too.
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Living as you Believe
“If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895 – 1979)
I have a book of quotations from this beloved Archbishop, one for each day of the year, and this is the one for today. The book was a Christmas gift from my parents, who aren’t even Catholic, but they know how much I love this guy!
For One-Liner Wednesday, which doubles as JusJoJan day 5.
Clothes Shopping is the Worst
This butterfly cinquain is for Brian’s prompt about shopping. I’ve gotten more relaxed about the things in the poem, but it’s still where my mind went. I think things have gotten better because I used to not think I was worthy to take up any space, more metaphorically, so I made myself take up literally as little space as possible. Anyway, I hate shopping, especially for clothes! Also linking with DVerse OLN.
Kings and Priests
For what is more king-like than to find yourself ruler over your body after having surrendered your soul to God? And what is more priestly than to promise the Lord a pure conscience and to offer him in love unblemished victims on the altar of one’s heart?
From a sermon by Pope St. Leo the Great
For One-Liner Wednesday. Today is his feast day. He was pope from 440 to 461.
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