Carrying within the all-penetrating Eye

Honoring, invoking the omniscient Might

Caught in the current of toil laborious

Dancing with destiny is ever more victorious 

Til the end of time gazing at the blazing Heart

Enraptured in temporal passage, universal plight

The preeminent trial of the spirit and sacred fight

Entranced bracingly in the numinous vertical flight

The path to splendor of saintliness

Paved by instants spent in omniscient Mightiness

Illuminated by the all-permeating Gaze

Elated and centered in ineffable, grace-filled praise 

Is not the Grace-giver a gift supreme and reward?

Is not the Mercy-bearer a Sacrificial Lamb?

Can a benevolent spirit take notice of self?

Take the line of least resistance,

Reward for service and earnest assistance?

Mighty is the one renowned for devotion 

Bond beyond time - union divine 

Dying to self for devotion undying

For the Breath of forgiveness

The Voice of absolution

To be Love's undying possession,

In the undying Possessor -

Inheriting all - taking off glove

To touch the Wing of resplendent Dove.

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"God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God,

and God abides in him" (1 Jn 4:16).

"In the end, even the 'yes' to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my 'I', in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded. Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love."

- The Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI -