For Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on Her feast day, May 30, 2024 (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, May 30, 2024, feast day of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (her shrine in Mexico alone (begun in 1966) brings “thousands of cures performed through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin”; see also May 25, May 31 and the last Saturday in May), Saint Dymphna, Saint Emmelia (Married to Saint Basil the Elder; mother of Saint Basil the Great, Saint Gregory Nyssen, Saint Peter of Sebaste, and Saint Macrina the Younger), Saint Joan of Arc, Saint Matiya Mulumba, and Blessed Marie-Céline of the Presentation (Bordeaux). On Jewish Calender today is Shabbat Commanded (1313 BC). (Also eve of the Visitation, the Queenship of Mary, Mary Mediatrix of All Graces, Our Lady of Altagracia de los Guaiqueríes, Our Lady of Banneux, and on Jewish calendar Water from a Rock at Rephidim (1313 BC)—wow!). Image from here.)

For Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on Her feast day, May 30, 2024

that freshman year in college, that Orthodox living room:

door’s Mezuzah to kiss, Shabbas candles in wait, everywhere the sacred books —

this is true home!, heart says. 

*From prompt: Write down a list of images that haunt you (in either a negative or positive sense), choose one to expand on as long as like, then boil it down into 2 - 5 lines. Poem read for inspiration is “A Green Crab’s Shell” by Mark Doty. FromTresha Faye Haefner (of Poetry Salon)’s Thursday Generative Writing class, May 30, 2024.