{"id":1706,"date":"2016-01-20T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:48:00","slug":"jan-20-500-pm-gesu-gerry-stockhausen-sj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/01\/20\/jan-20-500-pm-gesu-gerry-stockhausen-sj\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 20, 5:00 pm @ Gesu –> Gerry Stockhausen, sj"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, January 20 \u00a0– \u00a0“<\/strong>and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

About 5:00 pm this afternoon in Gesu Church just north of UDM\u2019s McNichols campus, women and men who have worked with, laughed with, kept commitments with Gerry Stockhausen, sj will gather for a Eucharist of celebration and goodbye. \u00a0When we\u2019ve completed the service, everyone is welcome to come c. 300 yards south to the Jesuit residence, across McNichols, where Gerry lived between 2000 and 2010. \u00a0The UDM Jesuits and our kitchen team have prepared food, and drink, and (thank you Ruth Fichter) \u00a0a great collection of photos from Gerry’s years here (e.g., Stock looks pretty cool in his Tiger\u2019s jersey the day he threw in the first pitch at Comerica park.).<\/p>\n

Even if you can\u2019t make it this afternoon, you are welcome to keep company with us from any distance.<\/p>\n

love<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post
\n<\/strong>\u201cWhen Death Comes\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

When death comes
\nlike the hungry bear in autumn;
\nwhen death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse<\/p>\n

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
\nwhen death comes
\nlike the measle-pox<\/p>\n

when death comes
\nlike an iceberg between the shoulder blades,<\/p>\n

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
\nwhat is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?<\/p>\n

And therefore I look upon everything
\nas a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
\nand I look upon time as no more than an idea,
\nand I consider eternity as another possibility,<\/p>\n

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
\nas a field daisy, and as singular,<\/p>\n

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
\ntending,\u00a0as all music does, toward silence,<\/p>\n

and each body a lion of courage, and something
\nprecious to the earth.<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s over, I want to say:\u00a0 all my life
\nI was a bride married to amazement.
\nI was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s over, I don\u2019t want to wonder
\nif I have made of my life something particular, and real.
\nI don\u2019t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
\nor full of argument.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to end up simply having visited this world.<\/p>\n

Mary Oliver \u00a0\u00a0New and Selected Poems, Vol.1<\/u><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Stockhausen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

August 27, 1949 \u2013 January 12, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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