{"id":2408,"date":"2017-09-22T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:46:48","slug":"sept-22-fatigue-and-the-grief-from-several-deaths-that-came-too-close-in-time-and-very-close-in-the-soul-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/09\/22\/sept-22-fatigue-and-the-grief-from-several-deaths-that-came-too-close-in-time-and-very-close-in-the-soul-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept 22 &#8220;fatigue and the grief from several deaths that came too close in time and very close in the soul.&#8221; anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 22 \u00a0\u201cLovely as the roses are, I might rather hide huddled in a cave\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>first posted October 28, 2015<\/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 that 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. \u00a0And then was surprised by joy.<\/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>Today\u2019s Post \u2013 morning prayer in the city<\/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>Friday, September 22 \u00a0\u201cLovely as the roses are, I might rather hide huddled in a cave\u201d first posted October 28, 2015 Ordinarily, when people come to the Jesuit Residence for a few days of stillness and prayer, the house welcomes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/09\/22\/sept-22-fatigue-and-the-grief-from-several-deaths-that-came-too-close-in-time-and-very-close-in-the-soul-anonymous\/\">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\/2408"}],"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=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}