Fr. Edward O.P. Easter Greeting

Summer Time at Iceland  31 March 2013

Dear Fr. Edward,
Thank you.
Your Poems illuminate the sacred calendar of;

• Easter 
• Annunciation.

Wishing you joy and grace for Easter-tide.
fr. Donald

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Sent: Saturday, 30 March 2013, 20:39
Subject: Easter Greetings

Dear Father Donald,

Here are two poems. The first is an Easter Greeting, contrasting the old Pasch of the Jews (crossing the Red Sea  with the New Covenant (as announced at the Last Supper, where Jesus referred to the New and Eternal Covenant). The best approximation I could make to this was a mosaic described as being at the Washing of the Feet of the disciples at the Last Supper. On the table (if you use a large magnifying glass you will find elements of the Supper in place. But the washing of the feet   has a glance at Moses' (total: cf Peter's reaction) washing of Aaron and his sons as priests, which was an extension of the possibility of the participation through the priesthood of the original Supper.

There is also, by anticipation, a poem on the Annunciation.

H... would be glad to have copies I am sure.

Gaudia Paschalia!

to you and the Community,

fr Edward O.P.

Picture Summer Time Iceland 2013

Pasch of Irrevocable Transition

In scale the Pasch of Jesus in Jerusalem

far exceeded that of the Red Sea – sited entirely by the lowering

of the wind-blown water and its infilling by wind-dropping.

The Paschal Lamb had been eaten before the Crossing.

Sufficiently drying to lure the Egyptian charioteers on to the puddly bottom;

sufficient water to drown them when the water returned with a rush.

At Jerusalem the trial of Jesus was rushed, and Nicodemus' and Joseph's servants

would unwedge the stone of the shrouded Occupant before the sun

passed the blackened sky and the horizon.

The old was only the play of meteora;

the time-scaling of the fulfilment was cosmical, with curving’s reducing the whole

to its rhythmical elliptical orbiting and inclined rotation;

in aspect a reverential presentation, liturgical and heaven-referring;

a measure indivisibly earthly and heavenly.

Yet divine power was working these regulations, awaiting the arrival of a

third Jerusalem day for its suppression of bodilyness, caught up into heavenliness

as even the body was released from space-time dimensions,

disappearing at will,

permitting-the days of sublimated fellowship in Galilee,

with heavenly feeding and the service of the Risen One

from the great bursting net as the fish gave up their watery, sensitive souls

to be eaten in “the peace of the Fish”;

even the passing on of a heavenly honey-comb, containing all sweetness,

as Jesus (by Luke) rose from the Bethany-side of Kedron,

leaving with them all the thunderous intensity

of a finalising absorbing of all mediate endings

into the passageless non-physical border

where what's this-world dimensioned passes into its most purest beyond.

Fr. Edward OP

Stykkishólmur

Holy Saturday 2013

[notes, “meteora” as Aristotle would have understood it; ill: above: Poussin; below Florence Duomo C13].

From within all perspectives a Blessed Pasch E.B. Stykkishólmur 2013

What was Announced by the pure, sent Spirit –

A poem on the Annunciation

Isaiah and his successors

were undeviatingly faithful

to a recurrent wave-series

of power and beauty: crest after crest,

with the promise of continuity of a Presence

that would not be adopted

as a creature becoming Messiah.

Though he was to be a perfect Manhood

embodying the highest Wisdom in all its articulations,

yet bodywise

subjected to disfiguring, pain-piercing solidarity,

not with

but for

the Earth-dwellers in eschatological

completeness and solidarity.

Extended to all human pastness of penultimately separated spirits:

all to be united in death-state till reintegration and judgement,

their spirits receiving the Word-mould of the eternal Theandric.

It was to be a commerce in fleshliness like any birth

with the sure establishment of the purest, perfectest homeliness

“in the flesh”.

With the Divinity not residing within

but the Person united in mind, will and spirit,

perfect and perfecting till infinitude:

the vital essence was Divine, taking over

the flesh from Theotokos,

and consecrating her endlessly in knowledge and purity

for timeless Consorting.

The Cretan Archbishop, Andrew saw that non-generative organs

would have changed their function to parturition:

no need for man-knowing,

only divine seeding as divinely ordering

her mono-zygotic emplacement 

in completest acceptance.

Continually  mono-sourced from her body with uniqueness;

a Divine Person remaining in triadic Union of nature

but coded uniquely from her

mono-sourcing only her own human genetic:

Virginal meeting Divine within the shekinah of glory.

Witnessed by humans

but felt by her as Virginal Mother in a continuity

with She remaining what she was,

with the Son as her Son unbounded in quality,

and She with permanence within though transcending

heaven's hierarchical dynamic positing.

Difference-making in her as instantly recreating and deifying.

Yet from the overflowing abundance of timeless creative generosity

her theandric Son was made

for himself and for viewing humanity

most like her in bodily frame and features,

save physical womanhood.

Yet in highest oneness in mind, desire and willing

and so physically viewable, with even self-feelable features,

complementary in alignment of looks

even more so in graspings of mind and spirit and love

to him as timeless Source, with intensity

growing and harvesting continually till judgement is passed universally,

from that unique Moment of timeless expansion,

never decreasing in state and in consequences

as the Purest Spirit, bursting out its message,

excrescing now its wave-harvesting drives,

singly and timelessly achieves

from  the principative total-as-multiple adoptings,

in union with each one,

caught up into the universally enfolding Divinity.

 Fr. Edward, O.P.

Stykkishólmur

22 March (Good Friday) 2013