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Alone

A sacred vow is taken
to be alone
For faith to awaken

In fledgling, seeking, youth
to be alone
Reveals a timeless truth

Swimming against conventions tide
to be alone
In the Lord’s Service to abide

Wisdom accrued by experience
to be alone
Delightfully makes good sense

Priesthood years pass by

to be alone
Surrounded by loves soothing sigh

Lifetime regrets cry, “If only”
were you alone?
Perhaps… but never lonely.

Fr. Patrick Brennan © 2015 all rights reserved

I wrote this about a vocation to the priesthood. Putting yourself forward for ordination you give up the option of having a wife and family so as to be “alone” in serving the Lord first. I say to be alone because I am asked are you lonely? I can’t say that I have not thought of what is given up, but at the same time I don’t feel lonely. Alone is misleading in the sense that being in the Lord’s Service as a priest, I am anything but alone! But I use the word alone because it sums up the spirituality of putting the Lord first. This is a task that involves a great deal of prayer and trusting in God’s providence and care. To the eyes of the world at large a priest is in effect seen as being “alone” but in the heart of vocation that is not the case. I am surrounded by love; through the heart of Christ, who calls and sustains. By the support of prayer, other priests, and the good wishes of family and parishioners too. The poem looks at the big picture and asks the question; as a priest… am I alone? Concluding with the great prayer…never lonely!



Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2015/11/alone.html



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