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GETHSEMANE:

Who was it said that ‘Yes’?-

‘Not my will but yours be done!‘?

A man, a truly man,

a truly God within

the Trinity.

A God said human Yes

to God,-

A man who took us to himself,

one flesh with us,

one body now with him,-

When He said Yes, We said it too

with him;

we did not know…

Darkening

Sorrow clouds now gather,

Days of Sin’s great gloom,

The Holy One prepares himself

for utter abandonment

experienced.

His head, his whole self

pressed down and down and down

beneath the ever-darkening

waters of

sin.

He entered it, it entered into

his entrails,

his churning nauseated

stomach.

BRILLIANCE FROM DARKNESS:

He faced the cave of darkness,

utterly,

for this is why he came:

his heart was filled with terror,

with disgust,-

for this was why he came:

He chose to enter in

to Sin,

utterly

for this is why he came.

He walked

into that cave-

he walked and walked

until he then became the

Dark of it,

utterly,

for this is why…

What is the meaning

of these Holy Days,

this Festival which now

we enter on?

What ‘Passing Over’ are we witness to,

that once took place

and here is present, now?

We are the people walking through

the sea of Calvary, forgiven people who

are here set free.

We are the ones in whom He

passes, now,

from separation /’No !’

to…

WHO IS THIS FLESH

upon a

cross,

spattered and injected,

scourged now with promises of

ecstasy

that follow through with

maddenings of the

heart ?

Whose is this sacred flesh,

guttered?

This is the chosen one,

perfumed with favour,

sent

to call out all the

Simons of

serene piosities

untroubled by the flesh that’s

all about them,

Christ

nailed by needles now

and crying out

‘Why are you forsaking me?’

Seamus Devitt…