– “He fills all, in all.”-
(Ephesians 1:23)
Stained glass window of a church,
colours no longer fighting,-
Sunlight fills them:
needing washing, cleaning, help
to take away what layers
cover them from being themselves,-
covers of fear, of bad theology
that cast them down into inferior roles.
Let all the glass, and all the many colours
Catch the Light, be clear, be truly glad
That what it is that lights them
Comes from Him.
Who is important here? Is it the reds? or whites?
Or any single one?
Some parts are missing- they can be restored:
re-place again some other, broken, bits,
and notice how they light when they have come
To let Him in Who wants to shine in them.
New Church are we, from Word of God;
No longer Ups and Downs, no longer
Some are more or Others less.
All have the single call, to be in Him
Who fills us all in all:
-‘Be holy as I am holy’-
Let my light
First fill you up,
And then pour out from-
All of you!
(After a visit to Scala, near Naples, where the first Redemptorist Community was founded in 1732 by Alphonsus Liguori. Written at Castellammare, near Naples, after that day spent in Scala: also, image of the stained-glass windows in St. Clement’s, Belfast; and reflecting on Ephesians 1:23)
