Fr. Edward OP Poem and Encyclical - to be a memorable date

Dear Fr. Edward,

Thank you.

Almost simultaneously, you send mighty deliveries through the Web.

Both the poem and the encyclical immediately save the hours and Sunday
 to enter into these competing illuminations of mind and heart.

• Mary as Queen of Apostles
• "Lumen Fidei" [42,800 Google hits including the Catholic Herald Online].

I have Printed the poem for Heather and hope she will be here on Sunday.

In Dno.

fr. Donald 

domdonald.org.uk 

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: edward ...
To: Donald ...
Sent: Saturday, 6 July 2013, 18:13
Subject: Pope Francis's Encyclical 

On the Encyclical "Lumen Fidei" of Pope Francis -https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mUhSDWW-IdKDYmfeKYudyhZ2w1iqhv1RX2bxEFZL4qs/edit?usp=sharing

Dear Father Donald,

Here is the text with which I hope you will not be disappointed.

Outside a strong wind is blowing.

On Monday the Sisters take me on a trip to see a geyser and a waterfall and something else. Things I have   seen before. I just know the road between Stykkisholmur and Reykjavik.

Blessings from

fr Edward O.P. 

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: edward booth <booth.edward@gmail.com>
To: Donald Nunraw <nunrawdonald@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, 6 July 2013, 10:16
Subject: Some more lines = with a second letter to follow

Mary as Queen of Apostles Saturday of Our Lady 15 June2013 -https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p_ML_Jo4WxgwRu9x8MQjNylhbVLmopTsrvFszCkTBtc/edit?usp=sharing

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Sent: Saturday, 6 July 2013, 10:26
Subject: Another poem and some news

Dear Father Donald,

Here is a second poem of a different sort.

Just to say that you asked me to write a poem on Pope Francis's ([lus Pope Benedict's) encyclical..

Well I looked at the text after I downloaded it (and we had a visit from the Bishop and then exposition). I  have written some lines even though the result is long and complex.

When I have prepared the sermon for next Sunday to send to the translators, I will type it out improving and excising where necessary and I hope to send it to you before gong to bed tonight. For Heather as well please!

Blessings and greetings to al your brethren!

fr Edward

Mary as Queen of Apostles

Mary bears title after title:

how does she sustain that of ‘Queen of Apostles’?

She began as Mother of Judaism’s Messiah and Christ

and that - - - - - -

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Lumen Fidei: A Summary on Pope Francis' First Encyclical

Focus

http://www.focus.org/blog/posts/lumen-fidei-a-summary.html

Lumen Fidei: A Summary on Pope Francis' First Encyclical

by Kevin Cotter | JULY 5, 2013

Pope Francis has released his first encyclical along with some help from Pope Benedict XVI who completed most of the draft before he resigned from the Papacy.

[For more basic facts on the release of this encyclical, see 7 Things You Need to Know about Pope Francis’ First Encyclical]

First, this encyclical is fantastic. I think the Church will be thinking, praying, and quoting this one for a very long time. The Church, especially in the West, is hungry for a renewal of the faith. During this Year of Faith, this encyclical on faith is a tremendous addition to the conversation that is going on throughout the world.

Second, the purpose of this blog post is to give a summary of the encyclical. After its release, there will be plenty of news articles about the encyclical that will report a few of the major themes or quotes of the document.

[Follow Pope Alarm on Twitter or Like us on Facebook to receive to get these quotes and share them with others].

Others will want to read the entire document, but mig - - - - -

COMMENT:St. Therese’s poem, “GLOSE ON THE DIVINE

It was difficult search the original of the Poems of St. Therese. Fortunately, the shelves right beside us in the lower cloister display the St. Therese collection.

And, invaluable is the French version of our copy of,  Soeur Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte Face  

In the 1960's Book bindery, Fr. Andrew succeeded binding the French style uncut pages volume. Beautifully bound in leather quarter mitred covers.

St. Therese’s poem, “GLOSE ON THE DIVINE, After St. John of the Cross”

*** below, page facsimile scan...........

Soeur Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte Face Histoire d'une âme écrite par elle-même (French Edition) by de Lisieux Thérèse (12 Jul 2011) - Kindle eBook

St. Therese’s poem, “GLOSE ON THE DIVINE, After St. John of the Cross”

Poems of St. Therese Of The Child Jesus: Known As The Little Flower Of Jesus. Translated By The Carmelites Of Santa Clara, Publisher: Burns Oates and Washbourne (1925)  

St. Therese’s poem, “GLOSE ON THE DIVINE After St. John of the Cross” posed some puzzlement. The English of ‘Poem of Little Flower Jesus’ brings little known vocabulary. – Glose of the Divine.

The Victorian style translation does not make the poem easy. This text is from London 1925 printing.

Further hurdle is the fact that available Online versions omit some of the poems, in particular the missing ‘Glose on the Divine, after St. John of the Cross’.
[Similarly missing the Glose on the Divine, in a French first edition 1907].

Here, St. Therese is in deeper experience with St. John of the Cross. A Link below helps the explanation.

 http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/glose.htm 

Hopefully there will be an updated translation, 2001. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-Therese-Lisieux-Alan-Bancroft/dp/0006279503/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1  

POEMS OF LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS

GLOSE ON THE DIVINE

After St. John of the Cross

Leaning without support, without light and in darkness,
I go to consume myself of love. " - St. John of the Cross.

To the world, with delight all-surpassing,
An eternal farewell I have said;

O'er itself wings my heart life-amassing,
From support save in God it hath fled!

And now in His light I am seeing
What is dearest where joys overbrim,

'Tis when heart, soul, and all of my heing
Lean, and know no support save in Him.

While I suffer in darkness unbroken,
Through this mortal delay of an hour,

I possess here at least one fair token,
The star of love's infinite power.

In the way, all of peril surroundeth,
But I follow, no fear can debar,

For by love, well I know life aboundeth
’Mid the shadows of exile afar.

His love as I learn every hour,
Can profit by good and by ill

That He findeth in me: O what power!
Transforming my soul at His Will.

This flame feedeth deep, nor returneth,
It pierceth my heart from above;

As with ardours of fire it burneth,
I go hence, consumed in my love.

1896.

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  http://www.volecentral.co.uk/vf/glose.htm 

Glose (or Glosa)

The glose originated in Spain, where it is known as the glosa. It has two parts, which are normally written by different authors. 

The first part - the texte or cabeza - consists of a few lines which set the theme for the entire poem. Typically this will be a stanza from a well-known poem or poet - although it is perfectly permissible to write your own texte.

The second part - the glose or glosa proper - is a gloss on, or explanation of, the texte. It takes the form of an ode, with one stanza per line of the texte. Each stanza in turn expands upon its corresponding line of texte, and ends with a repetition of it. 

An example will make this clearer.

 

Another blow for press freedom

The painful warrior famoused for fight 

After a thousand victories once foiled 

Is from the book of honour razèd quite 

And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. 

A thug, about him something of the night, 

But our thug, who took up arms and stood firm, 

Brave, strong and tall for what he thought was right.  

A hero, though he’d blush to hear the term, 

The painful warrior famoused for fight.

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Related forms

The rondeau redoublé will give you a distinct sense of déjà vu.

Back to Verse Forms home page. 

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The Threeness of the Trinity. Fr. Edward O.P.

That the Threeness in the Divine Nature is not an abstract threeness

The Threeness of the Trinity is best remembered in John's reminiscence

of the Lord's Last Supper discourse:

that Father and Son are not two in divinity but One

to which the Spirit-Paraclete is added as Proceeding therefrom.

Look we, think we, them around ourselves

though we see them not,

only their vestiges,

whose images we unite with our revealed and instructed faith.

We believe in an unbreakable and exact continuity,

even with the shortfall in a variegated cosmic nature,

with the certainty of being enfolded

with our essentialist nature noetic and geistlich

accessible and abundantly desirable,

unitable through connaturality to our Source,

which is a Spiritual light in infinitude.

Here the Three are One inseparable yet Triadic

in whjch the Lord has full and divine knowledge of Himself,

permeating the sharpest and deepest knowledge in a human mode,

yet united as unmixed and substantially single;

knowing through the single divine nature

the Godhead of Father and Spirit with their self-knowledge.

He knew this as timelessly real and true

and himself as so divinely united.

Arius's neo-platonising rationalisation

was the echoing of material thingness as separating

with an improper overlapping.

So containing divinely everything in Godhead;

containing all created being and beings through participation,

and rejecting the imagination's productions with separateness of Persons

from a flash of geometry -

in a flash suppressed in the form of our knowing,

yet not in the reality of its single ousia (as unstufflike "stuff").

Our spiritual connatural knowing of this

is through an admission to the (to us) darkness of

what is in itself purest, spiritual light: as such metaphorical,

in the Divine essence's timeless self-knowing,

to which an occasional attrait-attraction

from the all-containing divinity encourges us onward

in discernable soul-surging

towards our material uncontainment- (not point-like) finality.

The way to and through divine darkness is a "night-like illumination"

producing a glancing grasp of "divine delights" (Ps 139,11).

Outgoing from the Persons to the Others is also

instantanious and total return to themselves,

with no trace of Arian loss -

the Trinity is self-coincident.

Yet it contains derivational processes as known,

not in the Triadic self and its selves,

but in the outgoing emanations

of spiritual and material ousia.

Nothing in the Godhead is held back against itself;

its creation responds immediately, seen in Itself, to divine willing and intentionality,

but for what is created it is responsive to willed and creative delaying.

That delay entails a return from creation

from its crowning, stewarding humanity.

The Jewish people sensed a need in all justice

to make that return to the Creative, Choosing and Protecting God

through collective Liturgy and individual prayer.

It was in part converted to the Word of God Incarnated through Mary,

but the greater part kept the primacy with articulated multiple law-giving

held as absolute, even with the prophets' repeated positing of a Messiah,

his life and dying foretold in detail and fulfilled.

John the Baptist preached the imminent fulfillment,

calling for conversion and to take the straight Way which he would show,

leading it to a new and spiritual Jerusalem,

with diamented and impregnable walls and open gates,

its inhabitants prayer-bound in sober ecstasy,

in its Temple whose light-source and the Temple are the Lamb.

John saw him, heard him in his Patmos vision:

"I am the Alpha and the Omega ...

who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty"

For him he wrote letters to the seven Churches of John's Greek-Asian mission,

filled with precise and up-to-date instruction.

Receiving the preaching and worshipping mandate,

Bishops and Priests and their successors

lead the response of humanity through the Church:

Triadic matching the Triadic origination of Triadic gifts,

as surrounding the redeeming sacrifice of the Lamb, and in the Church

recapitulating what he recapitulated on his deicidal Cross.

Eucharistically drawing out a New Creation realistically and kerygmatically

from Him as Altar, Priest, Offering and End,

for the Almighty Father and in unity with the Holy Spirit

what was accomplished once and for all at history's pivotal point

Triadically and with the Son:

"Through Him, and with Him, and in Him",

To which the whole Church associates itself with its "Amen".

Stykkishólmur

18 May 2013

Dear Fr. Edward,

Thank you.

Last week you kindly sent your lines for the Feast of Holy Trinity.

Geeetings and blessings.

Donald

domdonald.org.uk 

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: edward booth ...

Sent: Saturday, 18 May 2013, 23:13
Subject: More lines

 Dear Donald,

 A poem for tomorrow and a poem for next Sunday!

 Blessings from 

fr Edward

 -- 

Father Edward Booth O.P.
Iceland.

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

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: edward booth ...
To: Donald ...

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