{"id":2431,"date":"2017-10-16T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:53","slug":"october-16-a-moment-to-sit-bythy-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/10\/16\/october-16-a-moment-to-sit-bythy-side\/","title":{"rendered":"October 16 &#8221; . . . a moment . . . to sit by\tthy side&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday October 16 \u00a0 \u00a0annual retreat days<\/p>\n<p>If you emailed me this week, you would receive this\u00a0auto-response message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From Sunday Oct 15 until Sunday Oct 22 I will be making my personal retreat in New England. \u00a0I will occasional check emails to catch important messages, but for the most part stillness gets my attention.<\/p>\n<p>Time to breathe in and out slowly, almost like reading a poem for 8 days.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u00a0 Rabindranath Tagore \u00a0Gitanjali # 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I ask for a moment&#8217;s indulgence to sit by thy side. The works<br \/>\nthat I have in hand I will finish afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite,<br \/>\nand my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.<\/p>\n<p>Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and<br \/>\nthe bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is time to sit quite, face to face with thee, and to sing<br \/>\ndedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.<\/p>\n<p>Tagore, \u00a0Gitanjali # 5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/Tagore.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1046\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/Tagore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/Tagore.jpg 219w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/Tagore-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913<\/strong><br \/>\nRabindranath Tagore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday October 16 \u00a0 \u00a0annual retreat days If you emailed me this week, you would receive this\u00a0auto-response message. &#8220;From Sunday Oct 15 until Sunday Oct 22 I will be making my personal retreat in New England. \u00a0I will occasional check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/10\/16\/october-16-a-moment-to-sit-bythy-side\/\">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\/2431"}],"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=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}