{"id":1988,"date":"2016-09-16T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:37","slug":"sept-16-morning-stillness-for-a-guest-in-the-jesuit-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/09\/16\/sept-16-morning-stillness-for-a-guest-in-the-jesuit-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept 16 morning stillness for a guest in the Jesuit house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday, September 16 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u201clovely as the roses are, I might rather<br \/>\nHide, huddled in a cave\u201d<\/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 and skilled construction workers creating new space for Detroit Mercy\u2019s College of Health Professions, \u00a0one 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>Have a blest weekend.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u2013 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=\"alignnone wp-image-1594 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/October-Poem.jpg\" alt=\"October Poem\" width=\"1632\" height=\"2112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/10\/October-Poem.jpg 1632w, 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-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 16 \u00a0\u00a0\u201clovely as the roses are, I might rather Hide, huddled in a cave\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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/09\/16\/sept-16-morning-stillness-for-a-guest-in-the-jesuit-house\/\">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\/1988"}],"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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}