Sunday, December 9, 2012

Day Nine of Shrines for Mary

 
May today's offering reflect the light in your own heart :
 
an old bent tin and glass shrine,
lovingly gilded,
an old chipped statue,
highlighted and sanctified with
a few strokes of the brush,
a hand made clay sacred heart on fire,
an old holy card image,
a rosary brought back from Notre Dame
and my favourite
poem by
Thomas Merton (Maria Lodevicus)
 
 

IN SILENCE
 
Be still
Listen to the stones of the wall,
be silent, they try
to speak your
 
Name.
Listen to the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
Are you? Whose
silence are you?




Who (be quiet)
Are you (as these stones
Are quiet). Do not
Think of what you are
Still less of
What you may one day be.
Rather
Be what you are (but who?) be
The unthinkable one
You do not know.
 

 
O be still, while
You are still alive,
And all things live around you
Speaking (I do not hear)
To your own being,
Speaking by the Unknown
That in you and in themselves.
 

 
 


'I will try, like them
To be my own silence :
and this is difficult.
 

 
The whole
World is secretly on fire.  The stones
Burn, even the stones
They burn me. How can a man be still or
Listen to all things burning? How can he dare
To sit with them when
All their silence
is on fire?"
 
 
 
 
Please visit others on this ninth day of Pilgrimage of Marys
at
 
 
 
blessings
 


9 comments:

  1. Perfection Hettienne. Your shrine is amazing. Love that you've recyled the tin. Wonderful job and I so enjoyed the poem. Thank you. Happy Mary Day to you.

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  2. Listen to the living walls.
    Who are you?
    Who
    Are you? Whose
    silence are you?

    Love that! Your shrine is gorgeous, Hettienne.

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  3. Very inspiring poetry and beautiful photography ~ 'on fire with the spirit' ~ ^_^

    (A Creative Harbor) aka 'ArtMuse Dog ^_^

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  4. The whole
    "World is secretly on fire. The stones
    Burn, even the stones
    your shrine is gorgeous!!! and these words...

    They burn me. How can a man be still or
    Listen to all things burning? How can he dare
    To sit with them when
    All their silence
    is on fire?"

    may we all be on fire with divine love!!

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  5. Everything about your post is utterly magnificent...the shrine with all its meaning and beauty, the essence of the words. I find it all so nurturing and healing...thank you for sharing all this with us today...simply awesome!

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  6. Burning with divine fire; sitting in stillness to hear the sacred; offering praise with words, with images, with our hands and hearts.

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  7. What super treasures you have brought together into that shrine. A lovely tribute to Our Blessed Mother. The poem is so deep and made me think a lot.

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  8. This is a calming image to sit with......and your words are so splendid and meaningful.
    Ruby

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