A Year of Prayer: Season One Weekday Devotionalsনমুনা

The following extract is from ‘wedding’ by Aux. Lt. Rosy Keane, a spoken word:

Your mother at Cana
Celebration
Beautiful bride in glorious white
Bejewelled laughter
Burning heat and rejoicing Daughters
Sparkling sweat and whole hands
Wiping reckless beards
Abandoned reply ‘they have no more,
Son!’

Why involve me?

Why
Because
You change base metal
To eternal
Midas touch
For the internal
Soul

You took jars
Whole litres
Pompous rites quickly forgotten
ceremonial washing
I’m off to the Bathroom
Fill them up
And draw them out
You want
Sparkling or still?

You who hung on a fruitless vine
Tree, dead
wood cold iron
Who had no delight to enrapture
Thronging crowds
Filing past the failed insurrector
Physician weak-handed to cure what ails ya
Come down from that cross,
Can you make us believe?

Hat trick.

Perhaps your crucifixion was another
Form of marriage
The bridegroom on the cross
He who was served an inferior brew
I am thirsty
Drunk dry
Come drink without cost
This one sip that cost your life

And you turned water into wine again,
Unless you drink my blood
Do this and remember me

Binding mother to son

New family

Woman, why do you involve me
My time has come
Two become one

Here is your son
A branch of hyssop
Cleanse me, and I will be clean
A form of gory
Calligraphy

So, the book of life
May bear my inscription

Sin’s scarlet wine on your grandmother’s inherited tablecloth
Washed white as snow

I am thirsty
I am water
I am eternal
I am life
I am Son
I am Mother
I am the first word
I am
Drunk dry
So that
I be poured out as new wine
It is done.

Prayer: Jesus, I thank you for your holy water, offered from your side. I thank you for your holy bread, offered from your body. I thank you for your holy feast, offered in your company. Let me join you there in paradise and make seats at the table for today's feasts.

Action: Pray and discern: As you sit and have a meal today, picture having it with God. Set an extra cup or plate to visualise.