The intention of this website is to encourage and inspire the practice of writing as prayer. For many years, the weekly postings have offered prosaic reflections on the Sunday readings with journal questions posed at the end. While I will continue to use commentaries and resources for facts and scholarship in Lent 2018, I will express these ideas in poetry.
The readings are listed at the top of each reflection post; the list itself is also a link to the USCCB website, where the NAB translations are presented in full. My intention is not to force poetry upon an unsuspecting audience, only to suggest, by way of example, a different approach to writing as prayer.
We are currently in the Liturgical Calendar cycle involving the Gospel of Mark, who often emphasized Jesus’ identity as the Secret or Hidden Messiah. Something or someone may elude us for various reasons, but when we crack open the Word, we are inviting the Lord to reveal Himself to us. He’s ready and waiting! Whether in prose or poetry, I hope my efforts to discover all His hiding places in my everyday life, encourages you to do the same.
Finally, the poetic form of a triolet makes use of a pattern of repeated lines. Lent is repeated every year, biblical poetry plays with repetitions and, for my part, the Lord tends to need to repeat His messages to me many times over before I catch on. For these reasons, the Hidden Messiah poems may appear in the poetic form of a triolet.
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