Poems

In Dwelling

To be still,
to be
where the Trinity lives-
in me: …

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Three Times Holy

Can you hear the ‘Holy…’?
Three times ‘Holy’
to a depth
beyond…

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Damascus Road, Unfolding – 1

On Damascus Road
he met the
Church, the
Called *
World,
wounded.

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Damascus Road, Unfolding – 2

Damascus Road
leads back to
Calvary,-
and out again.

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‘And the two shall become one flesh…Christ and the Church’ – 1

We are
one flesh in Him-
We do
what we are,
one flesh in Him-

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Pleroma

Stained glass window of a church,
colours no longer fighting,-
Sunlight fills them:
needing washing, cleaning, help

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‘And the two shall become one flesh…Christ and the Church’ – 2

What inter-twining of realities
that we should be in Him,
and He in us:
‘this is my body’ now

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Practices

Great Truths and Insights,
Treasures of the Wind,
need practices:
When we have cried ‘AHA!’

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Preface

I have enjoyed and been challenged by the experience of reading through the poems and meditations of Fr. Seamus Devitt. It has been a great honour for me. I have known Seamus for several years.

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