Saturday, July 27, 2019

Veronica’s Face


Played a short podcast and prayed while a sage
Relayed the finer points of meditative
Prayer. Proposed rather recently, a response
While seeking spiritual direction: the
Exciting of the imagination. Citing 
Saints who draw union: picture; feel the warm 
Hands of Jesus Christ pressing against either
Side; face cupped by soft palms and fingers that
Caress. Yet, why should I recoil? But I do!

I’m a man. The only way I can imagine
This love of Jesus is to imitate,
Image His identity; a mere moment:
To place and press my hands on either side of
Veronica’s face. Ah, it’s then love flows.

Gary Edward Geraci

Moved with pity, Veronica wipes the face of Jesus Christ as he carries his cross along the Via Dolorosa to Golgotha. The Sixth Station of the Cross

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