<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521506" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mass</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">f I trust You, everything else will become, for me, strength, health, and support. Everything will bring me to heaven. If I do not trust You, everything will be my destruction. <br>Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When it begins<br>music plays and we sing<br>songs of gathering, greeting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This, then, is the family complete, <br>assembled around the table<br>ready for the thanksgiving feast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why can't we just remain<br>innocent, <br>present? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We tell the stories of our youth, <br>laugh at self-folly, glad<br>to tell the truth, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but soon we feel the pain<br>of separation, of nails<br>driven deep <br>beneath our tender skin: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">his heart breaks; her beloved body<br>cancer invades until we can only stare<br>at vacant crossings, <br>bereft, <br>alone, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when you speak<br>and, believing beyond reason, <br>we feel you, deep down, <br>feel the bread subsumed<br>in our very guts, spread<br>unreasonable warmth<br>and comfort<br>and joy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We cannot understand such power<br>but without it<br>our lives <br>would cease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521506" data-title="Mass de Steven Federle" data-description="f I trust You, everything else will become, for me, strength, health, and support. Everything will bring me to heaven. If I do not trust You, everything will be my destruction. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude When it begins music plays and we..."></div> </div> </div>

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