BEGINNING ANEW

BEGINNING ANEW

Open my lips to sing your praise,

Open my heart as my hands I raise,

Remove all blemish of sin’s dark trace,

And flood my poor soul with merciful grace.

Hasten my Lord to sweetly console,

To mend what is broken, and to make whole,

I vow to submit and yield all control,

To Your Holy Spirit enthroned in my soul.

Long have I wandered in perilous night,

Weakened by sin and its deadly blight,

Come Lord again and fill me with light,

Have pity on me, be moved by my plight.

Draw me out from the miry depths,

Blot every trace of sin’s dire effects,

Restored unto grace I now acquiesce,

Conform my weak will to Your holy precepts.

Myra D’Souza – 9 March 2017

Sublime Humility

 

It is enough for me,

That in sublime humility,

Stooping sweet and low,

God descends into my soul,

In the Holy Eucharist.

I need nothing more

Than this.

He calms the raging tempest,

As He sates the yearning,

In my body, heart and soul.

The Food that I receive,

Has power to assuage,

my deepest hunger,

Slake my raging thirst.

I drink from springs,

Of living water,

Flowing from His wounded side,

And then I lie,

In cool green meadows

With my God who satisfies.

This is why

At every Eucharist,

When I have fed

On Bread,

Made of the finest wheat

And drunk the Wine,

Sweeter still than honey

In the comb,

In ecstatic bliss,

I cry,

"It is enough!

I ask no more

Than this."

He is  enough,

He always is,

Jesus Christ,

In the Holy Eucharist. 

Myra D'Souza - 10th July 2016

IT IS ENOUGH

   

It is enough,

Eternal Love

Now fills my soul,

Ineffable my bliss,

There is no more.

I now possess,

All there is

this side of life,

And all there is

In Heaven,

When I receive

The Bridegroom of my soul,

In the Holy Eucharist.

Myra D'Souza -6th July 2016