Luke 6:27-38.
As if it matters
noticing the migrant workers--
two to a wheelbarrow of concrete--
mending the walls of the rich
that exclude them
As if religion cares
not speeding past the Mexican
landscape and lawn workers
and homeless drunks
on their way to church
As if it lasts
the protest against
the long wait to enter the death chamber,
the taking of new or old or any life
As if they change anything
clouds in a blue sky that
arrest the heart
words rising from the dark cave
into the light
As if it matters
war being the outcome anyway
just or unjust
those against it mocked and crowned
with shame
As if they already possess it
the merciful
who continue to pray
and labor and protest
without counting the measure
with which they measure
Murray Murray, river, Australia Murray, principal river of Australia, 1,609 mi (2,589 km) long, rising in the Australian Alps, SE New South Wales, and flowing westward to form the New South Wales–Victoria boundary. Bodo is a Franciscan Franciscan Member of a Christian religious order dedicated to the apostolic life of poverty and preaching founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. The Franciscans actually consist of three orders. friar friar [Lat. frater=brother], member of certain Roman Catholic religious orders, notably, the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, and Augustinians. Although a general form of address in the New Testament, since the 13th cent. , author, and visiting professor in the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University Students and alumni refer to the university with an affectionate nickname—"Bona's"—which originates from the school's original name, St. Bonaventure's College. Location The campus sits on 1,200 acres (4. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . |
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