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Beginning of Months
Through the door of His bloody Cross, we make our eternal exodus.
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Cody Ilardo
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Remissionem Peccatorum
I remember you’ve forgotten: All my sins you’ve cast aside. Eternal Word, the one Begotten, Purifies His precious Bride With the holy Blood and Water…
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Cody Ilardo
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The Thrones of Christ
A Maiden lap. A wooden manger in Bethlehem. The arms of a Carpenter. The arms of smiling Simeon. The arms of Anna the prophetess. In the temple…
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Handmaiden, Headcrusher
The Protoevangelium, Jael's Tent, & The Place of the Skull
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I Saw Water Flowing
Let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
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Take & Eat
I have always found it incredible that Jesus started the Supper by saying, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you.” The fact that the…
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Rabboni!
Why weepest thou?
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Little Sermon
The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he…
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The Hammer of God
I saw the hammer of God. I saw the hammer in His mighty hand and outstretched arm. I heard the thundering voice of authority which said, “vengeance is…
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The Trial of Christ
Two Poems: "Ecce Homo" & "INRI"
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Jacob in Egypt
Here’s a poem I wrote about Jacob’s final days in Egypt, as described in the end of the book of Genesis. Genesis 49 is already in a poetic form in the…
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