I Am Said I (Huruma)

The smooth touch Of cold marble Beneath the pilgrim feet Bloodied in the ascent We have taken off And left our shoes outside With our weapons Our strength and proud boasts In the cool of the sanctuary We are introduced again To the pure nakedness of birth Entering into life Surrendering again to love Adoring Him The old woman Pours water unbidden On my feet Cleansing, soothing balm Drenching the soul She is Christ to me And I the beloved resting Near to the heart

June 10, 2012  The feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus (Corpus Christi) brings back memories from a distant past of processions and first Holy Communions and innocence. When Sister Frances was preparing us for our first Communion she said that our souls would be shining bright when we received Jesus and when the day arrived it was this brightness that I was looking out for. I watched the children ahead of me kneeling at the altar rails and I looked at the soles of their shoes to see the brightness shine there, not knowing the difference between soul and sole!  Of course there was no brightness to be seen but I adjusted to this by saying to myself that there must be something else, another soul. And when my turn to kneel came I closed my eyes, put out my tongue, received Jesus and saw the brightness at the back of my eyelids. It's been normal ever since for me to experience the brightness that comes with Holy Communion. Sally Read expresses it well for ...