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Real stories. Real people. Real hope.
The Veritas Manifesto Project and the OCCI Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitarian Efforts invite you to a special viewing of the documentary "Which Way Home" — a journey, a choice, a human story.
Join us online on August 19 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time to watch, reflect, and be inspired together as a community grounded in compassion, justice, and dignity.
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Visit https://video.myocci.social to join.
Be part of the conversation. Be part of the change.
#WhichWayHome #NazarethManifest #OldCatholic #FaithAndJustice #Compassion #PaxEtBonum
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Real stories. Real people. Real hope.
The Veritas Manifesto Project and the OCCI Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitarian Efforts invite you to a special viewing of the documentary "Which Way Home" — a journey, a choice, a human story.
Join us online on August 19 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time to watch, reflect, and be inspired together as a community grounded in compassion, justice, and dignity.
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Visit https://video.myocci.social to join.
Be part of the conversation. Be part of the change.
#WhichWayHome #NazarethManifest #OldCatholic #FaithAndJustice #Compassion #PaxEtBonum
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Real stories. Real people. Real hope.
The Veritas Manifesto Project and the OCCI Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitarian Efforts invite you to a special viewing of the documentary "Which Way Home" — a journey, a choice, a human story.
Join us online on August 19 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time to watch, reflect, and be inspired together as a community grounded in compassion, justice, and dignity.
Visit https://video.myocci.social to join.
Be part of the conversation. Be part of the change.
#WhichWayHome #NazarethManifest #OldCatholic #FaithAndJustice #Compassion #PaxEtBonum
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Real stories. Real people. Real hope.
The Veritas Manifesto Project and the OCCI Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitarian Efforts invite you to a special viewing of the documentary "Which Way Home" — a journey, a choice, a human story.
Join us online on August 19 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time to watch, reflect, and be inspired together as a community grounded in compassion, justice, and dignity.
Visit https://video.myocci.social to join.
Be part of the conversation. Be part of the change.
#WhichWayHome #NazarethManifest #OldCatholic #FaithAndJustice #Compassion #PaxEtBonum
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Write for Convergent Streams: Belonging and Advent
The season of Advent is almost here, and we want your voice in our Fourth Quarter edition.
Theme: Belonging and Advent — A Season of Waiting, A Season of Displacement
Long before Christ was born, Mary and Joseph were already on the move, forced by census decree to travel while she was heavy with child. Soon after his birth, the Holy Family fled as refugees into Egypt to escape a ruler's violence. Advent is not only a season of quiet waiting. It is a season that remembers what it means to wait without a home.
We are inviting essays, reflections, sermons, and pastoral stories that explore Advent through this lens: displacement, hope, hospitality, and what it means to belong when you have nowhere to lay your head.
Whether you are clergy, a lay minister, an activist, or simply someone with something to say, we want to hear from you.
Submission Deadline: September 11, 2026
Submit to: [email protected]
Edition releases: October 1, 2026Learn more: https://convergentstreams.org
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#ConvergentStreams #OCCI #OldCatholic #CallForSubmissions #Advent #Belonging #HolyFamily #WriteForUs #FaithAndJustice
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Write for Convergent Streams: Belonging and Advent
The season of Advent is almost here, and we want your voice in our Fourth Quarter edition.
Theme: Belonging and Advent — A Season of Waiting, A Season of Displacement
Long before Christ was born, Mary and Joseph were already on the move, forced by census decree to travel while she was heavy with child. Soon after his birth, the Holy Family fled as refugees into Egypt to escape a ruler's violence. Advent is not only a season of quiet waiting. It is a season that remembers what it means to wait without a home.
We are inviting essays, reflections, sermons, and pastoral stories that explore Advent through this lens: displacement, hope, hospitality, and what it means to belong when you have nowhere to lay your head.
Whether you are clergy, a lay minister, an activist, or simply someone with something to say, we want to hear from you.
Submission Deadline: September 11, 2026
Submit to: [email protected]
Edition releases: October 1, 2026Learn more: https://convergentstreams.org
Pax et Bonum
#ConvergentStreams #OCCI #OldCatholic #CallForSubmissions #Advent #Belonging #HolyFamily #WriteForUs #FaithAndJustice
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The Office of Faith, Justice, and Humanitarian Efforts of the Old Catholic Churches International is pleased to introduce the Nazareth Manifest and the Veritas Manifesta.
These two projects represent the OFJHE's vision for a church that does not stay behind its walls, one that stands with the vulnerable, speaks the truth without flinching, and meets human need with both compassion and resolve.
Watch the intro video and learn more about the work of this office at ofjhe.myocci.org
Under the direction of Father Ricardo Romero, OSFoc, the OFJHE exists to unite faith, justice, and humanitarian action in the life of the church.
Pax et Bonum.
#OldCatholic #FaithAndJustice #NazarethManifest #VeritasManifesta #OFJHE #PaxEtBonum
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Circle One Fellowship Exeter (COFE) @exeter4christian2church4devon.wordpress.com@exeter4christian2church4devon.wordpress.comThe Problem of False Preacher Teacher Clerical Ministering Within Modern Day Churches
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The Problem of False Preacher Teacher Clerical Ministering Within Modern Day Churches
The table of the Lord is Holy.
The food we receive must come from the Priest-King Himself—pure, undefiled, and flowing from the Holiest of All.
Yet in our time, that table has been defiled.
The church has become a place where food offered to idols is served. These idols are not of wood and stone but of political causes, cultural trends, social programmes, and false moral appearances. They are the idols of the age, and they have been brought into the sanctuary.
The Social Gospel, with all its political causes and cultural trends, is such an idol.
It sounds compassionate to the natural ear, but it sacrifices the true Gospel on the altar of this world. It offers earthly reform where the Priest-King Jesus Christ offers heavenly reconciliation.
It speaks of systems and power where He speaks of the cross and the throne of grace. It rearranges deck chairs on a sinking ship. It offers programs where it should offer presence. It offers politics where it should offer peace. It offers activism where it should offer adoration.
This is not the Gospel. It is a counterfeit—a substitute that speaks of earthly kingdoms while ignoring the heavenly. It is food wrapped in pretty paper, but inside is rotting meat. It is a deception, a snare, and a trap.
Congregations that consume this food are not being heart-fed; they are being mind-fed. Their souls are starved while their minds are filled with the philosophies of men. Those who serve this food as if it were the Gospel are not acting as faithful shepherds of the flock; they are leading souls away from the true pasture.
We make it very clear, we do not seek merely to promote our own theology within COFE-CYEM by pointing the finger at (any) other theologies, denominations or faiths. COFE-CYEM itself makes many claims around our theology, our belief system and our faith.
We do not expect or ask everybody to just blindly believe our way of seeing and believing. All we seek is to call attention to the issue of the church and faith itself being used as a Trojan Horse for (worldly) purposes in order to further the interests of man and not God Himself.
We implore our followers respectfully – if you ever feel, suspect or see anything whatsoever within our own theology or posts here on COFE-CYEM that you believe is pushing (worldly) purposes or schemes, then please call us out and expose us.
We are no different or more righteous than any other brother or sister in Christ. But if we were to be found (using) the true Gospel as a Trojan Horse to push a false Gospel for our own purposes – then we are truly lost indeed.
The Nature of the Deception
The danger arises whenever social action, political programmes, or cultural causes become substitutes for the proclamation of Christ crucified and risen, rather than fruits flowing from communion with Him.
The New Testament consistently presents love for neighbour and care for the poor as genuine expressions of faith, not as alternatives to it.
The error is not in caring for the needy or seeking justice. The error is in presenting such activities as the Gospel itself, or as a sufficient substitute for repentance, faith in Christ, and the new birth.
Those who preach this substitute gospel speak of power where the Priest-King spoke of weakness. They speak of victory where He spoke of the cross. They speak of this world as if it were the only world. They have departed from the faith and given themselves over to the spirit of the age.
They have exchanged the Gospel of the finished work for a gospel of social reform. They have exchanged the cross for a political platform. They have exchanged the throne of grace for a seat of power. They have exchanged the rest that remains for the restless striving of the world. They have exchanged the Holiest of All for the outer courts of carnal religion.
This is not a judgment on persons but a discernment of teaching. We do not know the hearts of those who preach these things, and we leave their final judgment to God.
We are called to test the spirits and to distinguish between the pure food of the Gospel and the poisoned food that has been offered to idols. The warning is not against individuals but against the teaching itself, which, however attractively packaged, leads away from Christ.
The Rot Beneath the Wrapping
False teaching often comes wrapped in the language of the Bible, the imagery of the cross, and the emotions of the congregation. It speaks of love, justice, and compassion, but it hollows out their meaning. It is like the fig tree that had leaves but no fruit—a show of life without the reality of life.
Congregations that consume this food are being fed a diet of politics, activism, and social reform, but they are not being fed the pure Word of God.
They are being told to fight for earthly causes, but they are not being told to enter the Holiest of All. They are being told to change the world, but they are not being told to rest in the finished work of the Priest-King.
They are being told to be activists, but they are not being told to be worshippers. They are being told to build the kingdom of God on earth, but they are not being told that the Kingdom of God is within them.
The food that is being served is a gospel of the flesh, a gospel of the world, a gospel of the age. It has no power to save, no power to transform, and no power to bring the soul into the presence of God.
It leads to exhaustion, burnout, and disillusionment. It leads away from the Priest-King, not toward Him. It leads to the outer court, not the Holiest of All. The invitation to serve God in the world becomes a substitute for the invitation to abide in Christ.
The True Gospel and the Mind of Christ
The real Gospel is not a gospel of prosperity, politics, or social reform disguised as salvation. It is not a gospel of emotional experience without transformation.
The real Gospel is this: Jesus Christ, the Priest-King has entered the Holiest of All through His own blood.
The veil is torn.
The way is open.
Every soul who draws near through Him receives mercy, finds grace, and enters the rest that remains.
He ever lives to make intercession.
He brings God to us and us to God. In Him, we are accepted. In Him, we are kept. In Him, the endless life of God flows freely to all who will come. That is the Gospel. Not a portion of it. Not a version of it. It.
The mind of Christ is not the mind of carnal man, which seeks power, recognition, and earthly comfort. The mind of Christ empties itself, takes the form of a servant, becomes obedient unto death, and is exalted by the Father. The mind of Christ builds the church on the rock of revelation, and the gates of hell do not prevail against it.
The mind of Christ measures faithfulness by abiding in the Father’s presence. Those who preach the substitute gospel do not have the mind of Christ. They have the mind of the flesh, the mind of the world, the mind of the age.
They have not entered the Holiest of All. They have not passed through the veil. They have not been cleansed by the blood. They have not received the endless life. They remain in the outer courts, serving the idols of the age.
The Call of This Hour: Wake Up and Return
The call of this hour is clear. The pews empty because souls are hungry for reality—not programs, not politics, not noise, but the living presence of God in truth. Congregations must wake up. They must open their eyes to the deception of false teaching.
They must stop eating the food that has been sacrificed to idols. They must return to the table of the Lord, where pure food is served—the finished work of the Priest-King, the open way into the Holiest of All, the rest that remains, and the endless life that flows from His intercession.
The table of the Lord has been turned into a place where food offered to idols is served. The Gospel of the finished work has been exchanged for a gospel of social reform. The cross has been exchanged for a political platform. The throne of grace has been exchanged for a seat of power.
The rest that remains has been exchanged for the restless striving of the world. The Holiest of All has been exchanged for the outer courts of carnal religion. The church has been used as a Trojan Horse for political purposes, hiding its true agenda behind the language of compassion, justice, and love.
The congregations that continue to consume this food are being poisoned. They are being led astray. They are being robbed of their inheritance. They are being kept from the Holiest of All, from the rest that remains, from the endless life, from the Priest-King.
The time has come for them to wake up. The time has come for them to return. The time has come for them to stop eating the rotting meat and to come to the table of the Lord, where pure food is served.
The true church of the real Gospel is often small, overlooked, and ridiculed. But it knows the voice of the Shepherd. It does not follow the stranger. It abides in the Word. It dwells in the Holiest. The true church does not eat food sacrificed to idols. It does not bow to the false gods of the age.
It does not compromise the table of the Lord. It preaches the real Gospel—Christ and Him crucified. It preaches the finished work. It preaches the endless life. It preaches the open way into the Holiest of All. It calls every soul to draw near. It calls every church to open the doors. It calls every believer to cease from striving and rest in the finished work of the Priest-King.
The Contrast: The Olive Tree and the Wicked
Psalm 52 powerfully contrasts the man who trusts in his own strength and deceit with the one who trusts in God’s unfailing love and flourishes in His house. The Psalm speaks of the wicked man who boasts of evil, whose tongue plots destruction, who loves evil rather than good, and who trusts in his great wealth and grows strong by destroying others.
This is the image of the one who trusts in his own strength, his own position, his own power. The Psalm declares that God will bring him down to everlasting ruin, snatch him up, tear him from his tent, and uproot him from the land of the living.
But the righteous is like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God, trusting in God’s unfailing love forever and ever. The righteous praises God forever and hopes in His name.
This is the image of the true believer—the one who trusts in the finished work of the Priest-King, who abides in the Holiest of All, who is sustained by the unfailing love of God through Jesus Christ who ever lives to make intercession.
The true believer does not boast in evil or trust in human schemes, false popular moral sounding social constructs or political power. The true believer trusts in the finished work of the Priest-King Yeshua Emet Melchizedek Salem—Christ Jesus—and abides in Him who has opened the way.
The Final Exhortation
The modern church stands at a critical hour. Many have turned the table of the Lord into a place where food offered to idols is served. The Social Gospel, with its political causes, cultural trends, and false moral appearances, has become the dominant offering.
It sounds compassionate to the natural ear, but it sacrifices the true Gospel on the altar of this world. It offers earthly reform where the Priest-King offers heavenly reconciliation. It speaks of systems and power where He speaks of the cross and the throne of grace.
We must not eat of any spiritual food that has been offered in sacrifice to an idol. The table of the Lord is holy. The food we receive must come from the Priest-King Himself—pure, undefiled, and flowing from the Holiest of All.
Those who preach the substitute gospel have turned the church into a platform for their political agendas. They have exchanged the Gospel of the finished work for a gospel of social reform. They have exchanged the cross for a political platform. They have exchanged the throne of grace for a seat of power.
They have exchanged the rest that remains for the restless striving of the world. They have exchanged the Holiest of All for the outer courts of carnal religion. They are not shepherds of the flock; they are servants of the spirit of the age, offering food that cannot satisfy the soul.
The true church of the real Gospel is often small, overlooked, and ridiculed. But it knows the voice of the Shepherd. It does not follow the stranger. It abides in the Word. It dwells in the Holiest. The true church does not eat food sacrificed to idols. It does not bow to the false gods of the age.
It does not compromise the table of the Lord. It preaches the real Gospel—Christ and Him crucified. It preaches the finished work.
It preaches the endless life. It preaches the open way into the Holiest of All. It calls every soul to draw near. It calls every church to open the doors. It calls every believer to cease from striving and rest in the finished work of the Priest-King.
The Fourth Truth stands. The dialogue continues. The fruit remains.
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Belonging and Advent: A Season of Waiting, A Season of Displacement
The Fourth Quarter edition of Convergent Streams is now accepting submissions, and the theme carries forward the conversation we began this quarter on immigration and belonging.
Theme: Belonging and Advent
Advent has always been a season of waiting. But it is worth remembering that the Holy Family themselves knew displacement intimately. Mary and Joseph traveled while pregnant under census decree with nowhere to lay their heads. And soon after, the newborn Christ became a refugee, carried into Egypt to escape violence at home.
This Advent, we want to sit with that truth. What does it mean to wait in hope while displaced? What does it mean to find belonging in a manger, in exile, on the road? We are looking for reflections, essays, sermons, and pastoral stories that hold Advent and immigration together, not as separate themes, but as one continuous witness.
We welcome submissions from clergy, lay ministers, activists, and anyone moved to write on this theme.
Submission Deadline: September 11, 2026
Submit to: [email protected]
Edition goes to print: October 1, 2026More info: https://convergentstreams.org
Pax et Bonum
#ConvergentStreams #OCCI #OldCatholic #Advent #Belonging #ImmigrationJustice #CallForSubmissions #HolyFamily #FaithAndJustice
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Belonging and Advent: A Season of Waiting, A Season of Displacement
The Fourth Quarter edition of Convergent Streams is now accepting submissions, and the theme carries forward the conversation we began this quarter on immigration and belonging.
Theme: Belonging and Advent
Advent has always been a season of waiting. But it is worth remembering that the Holy Family themselves knew displacement intimately. Mary and Joseph traveled while pregnant under census decree with nowhere to lay their heads. And soon after, the newborn Christ became a refugee, carried into Egypt to escape violence at home.
This Advent, we want to sit with that truth. What does it mean to wait in hope while displaced? What does it mean to find belonging in a manger, in exile, on the road? We are looking for reflections, essays, sermons, and pastoral stories that hold Advent and immigration together, not as separate themes, but as one continuous witness.
We welcome submissions from clergy, lay ministers, activists, and anyone moved to write on this theme.
Submission Deadline: September 11, 2026
Submit to: [email protected]
Edition goes to print: October 1, 2026More info: https://convergentstreams.org
Pax et Bonum
#ConvergentStreams #OCCI #OldCatholic #Advent #Belonging #ImmigrationJustice #CallForSubmissions #HolyFamily #FaithAndJustice
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Today is International NonBinary People's Day, and the Old Catholic Churches International celebrates and affirms every person who lives beyond the gender binary.
The church has too often been a place of exclusion for nonbinary people. We reject that. The table of Christ is open to all, and the call to ministry is not constrained by gender identity.
To every nonbinary person in our community and beyond: you are seen, you are welcome, and you belong here.
#NonBinaryPeoplesDay #NonBinaryAwarenessWeek #OldCatholic #FaithAndJustice #PaxEtBonum
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Today is International NonBinary People's Day, and the Old Catholic Churches International celebrates and affirms every person who lives beyond the gender binary.
The church has too often been a place of exclusion for nonbinary people. We reject that. The table of Christ is open to all, and the call to ministry is not constrained by gender identity.
To every nonbinary person in our community and beyond: you are seen, you are welcome, and you belong here.
#NonBinaryPeoplesDay #NonBinaryAwarenessWeek #OldCatholic #FaithAndJustice #PaxEtBonum
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On this Juneteenth, the Old Catholic Churches International pauses to remember and to celebrate.
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned what had already been true for two and a half years: that they were free. The delay itself is part of the story. Freedom proclaimed is not always freedom delivered. The work of liberation is long, uneven, and unfinished.
As a church committed to those the world has pushed to the margins, we cannot observe this day quietly. Juneteenth calls us to reckon honestly with the history of this nation, to honor the resilience and dignity of Black Americans, and to recommit ourselves to the ongoing work of justice that the Gospel demands of us.
The same Christ who stood in the synagogue and declared good news to the poor, release to the captives, and freedom for the oppressed is the Christ we follow. We do not get to celebrate his resurrection while ignoring the chains still worn by his people.
Today we give thanks for all who fought, suffered, survived, and persisted so that freedom could become real. And we renew our commitment to stand with those for whom the announcement has still not fully arrived.
Blessed Juneteenth to all.
#Juneteenth2026 #JuneteenthDay #FreedomIsNotFinished #OldCatholic #FaithAndJustice #PaxEtBonum
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On this Juneteenth, the Old Catholic Churches International pauses to remember and to celebrate.
On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned what had already been true for two and a half years: that they were free. The delay itself is part of the story. Freedom proclaimed is not always freedom delivered. The work of liberation is long, uneven, and unfinished.
As a church committed to those the world has pushed to the margins, we cannot observe this day quietly. Juneteenth calls us to reckon honestly with the history of this nation, to honor the resilience and dignity of Black Americans, and to recommit ourselves to the ongoing work of justice that the Gospel demands of us.
The same Christ who stood in the synagogue and declared good news to the poor, release to the captives, and freedom for the oppressed is the Christ we follow. We do not get to celebrate his resurrection while ignoring the chains still worn by his people.
Today we give thanks for all who fought, suffered, survived, and persisted so that freedom could become real. And we renew our commitment to stand with those for whom the announcement has still not fully arrived.
Blessed Juneteenth to all.
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The Sabbath Sabotage
They told us
holiness was neat,
pressed flat like Sunday clothes,
folded into bulletins,
spoken in indoor voices,
kept safely between hymns
and handshakes.
They told us
Sabbath was a soft thing,
a nap for the soul,
a gentle pause
before returning
to the holy machinery
of earning, buying, proving, becoming.
But Sabbath was never safe.
Sabbath is a wrench
thrown into Pharaoh’s gears.
A door barred against the market.
A candle lit
in defiance of the floodlights.
A refusal
to kneel before the stopwatch.
A holy no
rising like thunder
from tired bones.
Six days, they say,
you shall labor.
And the seventh?
The seventh is mutiny.
The seventh day
the fields are not your masters.
The ledgers do not own your name.
The inbox may howl
like a beast outside the gate,
but you will not feed it.
The empire counts bricks.
Sabbath counts blessings.
The empire demands output.
Sabbath gathers manna
and says, enough.
Enough for today.
Enough for this body.
Enough for this earth.
Enough for a life
that was never meant
to be fed into furnaces
just to keep the towers warm.
Sabbath is not laziness.
It is revolt
with bread on the table.
It is trust
with dirt under the fingernails.
It is the slave
remembering he is human.
The widow
remembering she is seen.
The ox
remembering grass.
The land
remembering how to breathe.
And maybe that is why
they sabotage Sabbath.
Because rest breaks rank.
Because silence interrupts slogans.
Because delight cannot be monetized forever.
Because a people
who learn to stop
may also learn
they can refuse.
Refuse the lie
that worth is measured in production.
Refuse the sermon
of profit without mercy.
Refuse the fear
that if we cease for one day
the world will fall apart—
as though we were the ones
holding up the stars.
No.
Sabbath is the admission
that we are not God,
and the miracle
that God is still good.
So let the engines choke.
Let the schedules stutter.
Let the tyrants call it weakness.
Let the anxious call it waste.
Let the merchants stand bewildered
before shuttered stalls
and unhurried hearts.
For this is the sabotage:
to rest in a restless world,
to feast in a famine of joy,
to loosen your fist
when all of history
has trained it to clench.
To stop.
To breathe.
To bless.
To remember
that we were not made
for endless extraction,
but for communion—
with God,
with neighbor,
with creature,
with soil,
with our own forgotten souls.
And so, on the seventh day,
we commit our small rebellion:
we light candles against consumption,
set tables against despair,
sing psalms against the grind,
and call this shattered life
still sacred.
This is no small thing.
This is how the kingdom enters:
not always with trumpets,
but with napping children,
unbought hours,
shared bread,
and a people audacious enough
to believe
that the world can turn
without their frantic striving.
Blessed are the saboteurs of empire.
Blessed are the keepers of Sabbath.
Blessed are the tired
who lay their burden down
and find, beneath the weight of all they carried,
a joy the masters could not confiscate.
For every Sabbath kept
is a crack in the idol.
Every prayer whispered at rest
is a seed beneath the pavement.
Every holy pause
is a hammer blow
against the myth
that Caesar owns time.
He does not.
The clock does not.
The market does not.
Time belongs to God.
And God,
in mercy,
has given some of it back to us.
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I live under the mountain,
the mountain with giant letters
that glare whitely in the sun.
It stands for the people who died then
and who die now.The coffers are empty.
History and war and the
hand of Nature have a way of
drinking you dry.The mountain is reflected in the
dark eyes of these hungry children.
I only hope that it still stands
when they can eat again.October 31, 1988
Managua, NicaraguaPart of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988
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