{"id":1591,"date":"2015-10-28T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:07","slug":"oct-28-lovely-as-the-roses-are-i-might-rather-hide-huddled-in-a-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/10\/28\/oct-28-lovely-as-the-roses-are-i-might-rather-hide-huddled-in-a-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 28   &#8212; &#8220;Lovely as the roses are, I might rather hide huddled in a cave&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday October 28 \u00a0\u201cMy life overflows with Death\u2019s toll\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, when people come to the Jesuit Residence for a few days of stillness and prayer, the house welcomes them with just that, stillness and hospitality that makes a place for prayer. \u00a0 These last weeks, with heavy machinery digging out the space for UDM\u2019s new main entrance, one of our prayer guests found stillness anyway. \u00a0S\/he wrote this poem to remember a morning\u2019s prayer, when s\/he tasted fatigue and the grief from several deaths that came too close in time and very close in the soul.<\/p>\n<p>Right here on McNichols Road, s\/he tasted grace. \u00a0 Best to read the poem out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy today&#8217;s remnants of H Patricia soaking the earth.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post &#8211; morning prayer in the city<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/October-Poem.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1594\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/October-Poem-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"October Poem\" width=\"640\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/October-Poem-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/October-Poem-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/October-Poem.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday October 28 \u00a0\u201cMy life overflows with Death\u2019s toll\u201d Ordinarily, when people come to the Jesuit Residence for a few days of stillness and prayer, the house welcomes them with just that, stillness and hospitality that makes a place for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/10\/28\/oct-28-lovely-as-the-roses-are-i-might-rather-hide-huddled-in-a-cave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}