O send forth your light.
And your truth.
Give us new sight.
That we may no longer stand aloof.

They will guide me on.
They will bring me to your holy mountain.
Despite all adversity , carrying on.
Helping us to spiritually train.

To the place.
Where you dwell.
Finishing our race.
Despite life’s pell mell.

My soul is thirsting.
For my God appearing.

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O send forth your light
Let me see your truth and light
Now and for ever

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See Psalm 42

My sheep hear my voice.
And follow me.
The cardinals have made their choice.
They prayed, they could see.

I and the father.
Are one.
They have found a new father.
A pilgrimage of service is won.

They travelled to Rome to listen and see.
And to conclave
And found the key.
And a new Pastor to cherish and save.

What will this journey be like.
We pray it is something we will like.

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If you hear my voice
You will then be my true sheep
I am your shepherd

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See John 10: 27-30

As he approached Damascus.
A light shone about him.
Did he know how much he would soon do for us.
And what God would soon do for him.

Falling to the ground he heard a voice saying.
Saul, Saul, what are you doing.
I often wonder why I am not listening.
To the word not understanding.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful.
If we received this call.
How joyful.
To be awakened like Saul.

So we keep on the road travelling.
Always doubting yet seeking.

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Approach Damascus
And you may yet see a light
To guide your spirit

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See Acts 9 : 1-20

You have seen me.
All that the father gives will come to me.
Whoever comes to me .
I shall never cast out from me.

I have come down from heaven.
Not to do mine own will.
But the one who sent me from heaven.
And this is one who sent me with his will.

This is the will of the one who loves me.
That I should lose nothing of all that he has given me.
But raise it up on the last day for me.
For this is the will of the father who sent me.

Everyone who looks on the son and believes in him.
Will have eternal life in him.

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For you have seen me
All that the father gives comes
From his heaven

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See John 6 : 35-40

For God so loved the world.
That he gave his only begotten son.
That whoever believes in him shall see the next world.
And so will have new life, believing in the son.

For God did not send his son into the world.
To condemn the world.
But through him to save the world.
And we are that world.

Whoever believes in him in him is not condemned.
But whoever does not believe is already condemned.
Are we condemned.
Or enlightened.

Into the world has come the light.
We are all that light.

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God so loved the world
That he gave his son to save
We are not condemned

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See John 3 : 16-21

God is light.
And in him there is no darkness at all.
Despite our doubts we continue our fight.
Praying we are not just ripe for our fall.

At 33 she died so young .
But she lives on by her letter writing.
She found her tongue.
And everything there is fitting.

You can visit her grave.
Marvel at her scholarship.
In one so grave.
But powerful in fellowship.

We remember this saint.
And wonder why our own faith is so faint.

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God is truly light
In him there is no darkness
It just comes from us

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See 1 John 1

Those who are sowing in tears.
Will sing when they reap.
We seem engulfed sometimes by fears.
We wonder if ever we will take the final great leap.

We really know nothing about St. George.
He lived in obscurity, died a horrible death.
But Edward 111 ensured that for England he was our forge.
He gives us hope and patriotic breath.

So if we fail.
And unknown die.
Who knows who will tell our tale.
Or where in people’s hearts we will lie.

St George is our patron saint,  really we can say little true.
About this saint, or indeed anything which is true.

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We just do not know
If Saint George killed the dragon
But does it matter

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See Psalm 126

The doors being locked.
The disciples were in fear.
How often do we worry about being mocked.
Where is danger , we ask, is it near.

Jesus came.
And stood among them.
He is here now, just the same.
Amongst us , me you and them.

Thomas said , unless I can place my hand in his side.
I will never believe.
We will never put our hand in his side.
Yet almost reluctantly , we believe.

We are blessed because we believe .
Although we have not seen , we believe.

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If our doors are locked
Will he come and stand with us
Yes it we believe

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See John 29 : 19-21

She went and told those who mourned.
But they would not believe.
So often faith is scorned.
We are offered but we do not believe.

We watch the kiss of peace won.
At the Popes funeral.
For a moment the world is one.
Does peace need a funeral.

He rebuked them for their unbelief.
And hardness of heart.
Yet where is our own belief.
Are we with prayer prepared to make a start.

How moved I was at the last station.
Proclaim the gospel to the whole of creation.

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Go into the world
Proclaim  gospel to creation
But do we do it

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See Mark 16 : 9-15

Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.
So Peter went aboard and hauled the fish inshore.
Are we looking, have truly we sought.
Are we searching for him on the spiritual shore.

The altar was beautifully dressed.
The sermon inspiring with vision.
But I don’t remember what was said.
But does it matter , Christ is Risen.

Every year we go through this.
Pain , death and new joy in life
Something not to miss.
A story true to real suffering  death and life.

Yes,  I often forget the preaching.
But I am, and not in vain, still looking.

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Bring some of the fish
And so Peter went aboard
And yes do we seek

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See John 21 : 1-14

Christ the undefiled.
Death with life contended.
Has sinners to the father reconciled.
Combat strangely ended.

God is beyond space and time.
We cannot fathom him.
He does not exist in our space and time.
We cannot understand him.

The atheists are right.
He is no where in the universe.
But believers too are right.
Because he never was or will be in our universe.

At mass today I suddenly seemed to catch this truth.
God, a spirit, everywhere and nowhere, stands outside this material truth.

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Christ the undefiled
Sinners, father reconciled
Combat now ended

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See Today’s Easter Sequence . Victimae Paschali Laudes

Repent.
And be baptised.
Our garments rent.
But faith realised.

The promise is for you and your children.
And all those who are far off.
For all  men and women.
Have faith, no need to scoff.

Everyone who the lord my God .
Calls to himself.
This is a universal God.
For every self.

Easter Week is passing.
Are we now believing.

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If we just repent
If we remember baptism
We will realise faith

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See Acts 2 : 36-41

Jesus met the women and said.

Greetings.
Now two thousand years later we do not need to be afraid.
With him we can look forward to endless meetings.

Today died our Holy Father.
Always remembered.
Reunited with his Heavenly Father.
No longer by earthly cares encumbered.

How many of us the day before we pass.
Will go out and try to please the crowd.
Soon we will navigate death’s pass.
Putting on for ever our spiritual shroud.

With we hope, like him, humility.
And smiling serenity.

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He met the women
And what he said was greetings
And that is enough

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See Matthew 28 : 8-15

God raised him on the third day.
And caused him to appear.
Amazingly that day is also this day.
Now we need not fear.

The great silence over the earth was yesterday.
Christ is risen , he is risen indeed.
A new dawn , hope, a new day.
New life , the sown seed.

We walk along day dreaming.
Christ is on the road to Emmaus talking.
But we are barely listening.
O dear, what are we missing.

But when today we broke bread at communion.
For one brief moment , we were listening and in union.

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Raised on the third day
He now lives for all of us
If we just believe

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See Colossians 3: 1-4