General (Vol. 2)

Article Sections

Contents

  1. A Small Voice
  2. Aspects of Motherhood
  3. When Jesus Stands Before Me
  4. The Revolution
  5. I Cannot Bear to See the News
  6. Disaster
  7. Ways of Praying
  8. Five Thousand
  9. When the Colour Runs Out
  10. For Mission
  11. Life Songs
  12. Exploring Theodicy And Dorothy Soelle
  13. Salute the Dawn
  14. World Harvest
  15. Dona Nobis
  16. I give
  17. How Do You Know?
  18. War and Peace
  19. Security
  20. Risk
  21. Behind the Tomb
  22. The Fall in Question
  23. Clarity in Mystery
  24. Forever and Sublime
  25. Death's Shadow in a Kiss
  26. Beauty
  27. Dearest Jesus
  28. Deus Semper Maior
  29. The Parish Church
  30. The Earthly Pain of Jesus
  31. Amor Omnia Vincit
  32. Gospel Music
  33. Thy Glittering Throne Awaits The Throng
  34. Wisdom and Love
  35. Creativity
  36. Traditions
  37. God and His People
  38. Love is Supreme
  39. Liberation
  40. The Heavenly Balance
  41. The Impenetrable Core
  42. All Saints
  43. The Calling of Mary
  44. Christ Triumphant Dwells within Us
  45. On the Streets
  46. You and Me
  47. Revenge
  48. Hostages
  49. Earthly Glory
  50. Water of Life

The Earthly Pain of Jesus

  1. His gentle address
    And steady silence in the earthly court
    Lead us to repress
    The cruel price for which our souls were bought:
    No heavenly Grace nor fortitude should mask
    The wrenching, searing horror of His task.
  2. His halo relates
    His place in Heaven after His great ordeal
    But it understates
    The agony and struggle that were real:
    For comfort in His Passion we invoke
    Divine resources, not the limbs he broke.
  3. But He was a man
    Whose friends forsook him at the bitter end
    And in His ordeal
    His friendship was denied by His best friend:
    Knowing the outline of His victory
    Softens the loneliness of His last cry.
  4. And lest we forget
    God could have made all well with one small thought
    But redeemed the debt
    That human sins with human life be bought
    Thus linking us through Jesus with His love
    Where pure autonomy might fail to move.
  5. So we must re-live
    Each moment of His passion and each tear
    And not relegate
    Pain as if Godhead made it disappear:
    Sometimes I hate the smoothness of The Cross
    Which hides the agony paid for our loss.