Eucharistic Meditations

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  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Three
  4. Four
  5. Five
  6. Six
  7. Seven
  8. Eight
  9. Nine
  10. Ten
  11. Eleven
  12. Twelve
  13. Thirteen
  14. Fourteen
  15. Fifteen
  16. Sixteen
  17. Seventeen
  18. Eighteen
  19. Nineteen
  20. Twenty
  21. Twenty One
  22. Twenty Two
  23. Twenty Three
  24. Twenty Four
  25. Twenty Five
  26. Twenty Six
  27. Twenty Seven
  28. Twenty Eight
  29. Twenty Nine
  30. Thirty
  31. Thirty One
  32. Thirty Two
  33. Thirty Three
  34. Thirty Four
  35. Thirty Five
  36. Thirty Six
  37. Thirty Seven
  38. As We Celebrate the Feast
  39. Thirty Nine
  40. Forty
  41. Forty One
  42. Forty Two
  43. Forty Three
  44. Forty Four
  45. Forty Five
  46. Forty Six
  47. Forty Seven
  48. Forty Eight
  49. Forty Nine
  50. Fifty

Twenty Three

  1. In palaces of gleaming bronze and marble,
    And clapboard huts with corrugated sheets,
    In smokey towns, choking on fumes of carbon,
    In villages, hooves echoing in their streets
    Your precious self of servant, priest and king,
    Is held on high in daily offering.
  2. As You gave up Your sacred flesh incarnate,
    Without a precondition or a price,
    Without cautious or limiting disclaimer,
    Yours is the democratic sacrifice:
    Your gracious love both human and divine
    Makes us all equal in the Bread and Wine.
  3. The bishop, clerk or peasant who caress You,
    The tycoon and the labourer who receive,
    Shed all our poor pretensions at Your altar,
    United by the fact that we believe:
    Oblivious of our mundane earthly state,
    Rapt in the Godhead that we venerate.
  4. Would that this fellowship in Christ would linger,
    With Eucharistic mercy in our Courts,
    With generosity in all our dealings,
    And simple love of playing in our sports:
    How can such gifts as Yours so ebb away
    Too often not sustained throughout one day?