To Wade into Tomorrow’s Call
He enjoined them not to depart from
Jerusalem, but to wait for "the promise of the Father about which you have
heard me speak...”
Acts 1:4
We were told to wait
the promise
to stay cloaked
and still
for the days until
we would feel the fire
He would
send
And
then send
us into
a fire that could never consume
our souls and
dreams
Now
after the whirlwind finally died
we would begin to walk
one to Cana
or Capernaum
or sail as far as Cyrene
or Carthage
But before
we would kiss our love
upon our brothers’ brows grown
smooth and unscarred by fear’s
vanishing
forever
We stood at
the shore where we were first
called and fed
breaking our fast
by remembering
and by
remembering
promising to wade
into tomorrow’s
call
-Luke
26 May 2019
Ordination
to the Priesthood
Norman A. Fischer, Jr. 27
May 2000
R. Tony Ricard 27 May 1995
Joseph A. Brown, SJ 27 May 1972
