the union of silence

the bound lift their hands and the chains rise

clanging and bouncing off each other

in a dance of bondage wanting free

a symphony lays within the links

though the dungeon holds their souls in isolation

like a score holding music

around which the dancers dance

for a while all seems lost until a baby's born

who knows only to cry when the chained dare not

who daily long for some open heart

some crack in the facade of humanity presumed sane

but lost behind words of kindness limited to a few

what music is made in the union of silence

until what is longed for breaks as a surprise instantly expected

when survivors walk free with loose hanging smiles

beneath eyes wondering whey it took so long

*Who is this Man who accepts us as we are, invites us to exist within time and with chance, without hiding places or privileges?

*To kill evil one must kill the significance.

  -Anon

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

-If one wants to distinguish, there are two layers in the Gospels.  On one hand, there is a rejection of all conformism, an invitation to awareness communicated by a boldness of tone.  On the other hand there is love and the community of sharing whose perceptible sign is bread and wine - the Eucharist - which is both death and resurrection.

-If love is not to be reduced to a new formalism or community to ritual while pretending to overcome divisions of money, class and race, they have to avoid ideology and sentimentalism, which means that they must begin to be fulfilled.  Otherwise, in spite of all good intentions, love and ritual become only more examples of inertia, made worst by fakery.  To believe that love can be intellectualized and made as obligatory as ritual, that people can be taught about a community of sharing in abstract terms, is to open the way to all sorts of illusions. 

-The Gospel is not made to dominate the world.  It's the grain of sand that upsets the worlds' machinery.  One can't inhale its fragrance and be content to leave everything the way it is.

-Emperors are no longer crowned or deposed in his name but in too many countries he remains the symbols of social and political immobility.

-There is always a danger in exploiting faith as a form of human knowledge.

-...it's the poverty and pain that men and women undergo which contains the seed's of Jesus' glory.

-When the soldiers took off his clothes and covered him with a scarlet cloak before putting a crown of thorns on his head and a reed in his right hand, crying, "Hail, king of the Jews," they were enacting the ultimate truth of all time.