This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. Before Mass we sit therekneel therehearts thrown openachingpleading(maybe joyful)happynumbconfusedwithin the orb of prayer,its warming graceenfolding usand pointingdeep withinto teach us eachto read the passion there; somewhere behind mesomewhere neari hear someonea woman(old)who whispers somethingonly God can hear;i catch alonethe tender rollof word on […]

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