Emptiful Vessels
The Poems of Fr. Séamus Devitt, C.Ss.R.
A never-ending ocean, bottomless and shoreless”,- his passion and his dying, instead of us, for us.
He carried it at first, a heavy load. Was later nailed to it, with pain untold.
Sorrow clouds now gather, Days of sin’s great gloom, The Holy One prepares himself for utter abandonment experienced.
He was despised — yet a man of sorrow — yet familiar with suffering— yet we averted our gaze— yet
‘I have revealed your name upon the cross I have glorified you upon the cross
Uncork the Wine of the Crucified,- abundant Feast for now a wine-washed world.
The one who sought to crush the holiness of God within that Man upon the Cross was in the crushing crushed.
He swapped my shirt of sin for his of grace, of holiness.
It’s huge, it’s awesome ‘way beyond the mind, my mind, to under – stand,- this man, the One who hung upon the cross,
Im-Piety has, as its opposite, LOVE.
One act of LOVE and by such leap of life
The pathway up the hill is love.
The crying out to heaven is love.
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:
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