Quote of the day, 24 May: Jessica Powers

All the Apostles looked at one another;
words curled in fire through the returning gloom.
Something had changed and colored all the room.
The beauty of the Galilean mother
took the breath from them for a little space.
Even a cup, a chair or a brown dress
could draw their tears with the great loveliness
that wrote tremendous secrets every place.

That was the day when Fire came down from heaven,
inaugurating the first spring of love.
Blood melted in the frozen veins, and even
the least bird sang in the mind’s inmost grove.
The seed sprang into flower, and over all
still do the multitudinous blossoms fall.

Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D. (Jessica Powers)

The First Pentecost (1937)

Powers, J 1999, The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, Siegfried, R & Morneau, RF (eds.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Renáta Sedmáková, The Scene of Pentecost on the Stained Glass in St Etheldreda’s Church, London, photograph, 2017. The stained glass window was designed by Charles Blakeman. Image credit: Adobe Stock / Renáta Sedmáková, Asset ID #187906813.

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