Fourth Sorrowful Mystery

Embraced the wood

Heavy from my guilt

Hardened from my faults

And, O Flower, you did not wilt

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Sheep

*grin*

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Joshua Fahey

Seventh Station

Jesus falls the second time.

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Sixth Station

Veronica wipes the face of Jesus

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Joshua Fahey

Purity

Coal placed on the tongue
Spirit on the lips and heart
Turn my face to you

Fire in the bones
Sparking life in deadened eyes
Have pity on me



God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

A Prayer of Desperation

Lord, I am deep in darkness
With death and his crooked grin
But in the barren wasteland your flower sprouts
A hope that grows slowly within
Have mercy on this sinner, Lord
Protect me in your holy ward


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

According to Your Will O God

According to your will, O God
Let it be, let it be
According to your will, O God
Let it be

When darkness clouds my weary soul
According to your will, O God
It is your grace that makes me whole
Let it be

As mother Mary humbly praised
According to your will, O God
Let Jesus from His death be raised
Let it be



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Third Sorrowful Mystery

Adorned by thorns, great king

A rose you are, yet thorns we gave

And mocked you in your pain

That you accepted as the price to save

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Water out of Stone

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Joshua Fahey

Fifth Station

Simon helps carry the cross.

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Fourth Station

Jesus meets His mother.

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Water Haiku

Thunderous swinging
Water flowing quenching thirst
Water from the rock

Water from the earth
Drawn up and given freely
By the woman’s hands



God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

St. Joseph, Righteous Man

St. Joseph, righteous man
Who cared for Mary well
Please pray, O righteous man
For peace in our hearts to dwell

St. Joseph, righteous man
Who taught our Lord to pray
Please pray, O righteous man
For our Church everyday

St. Joseph, righteous man
Who worked with tools and wood
Please pray, O righteous man
For our labors to be good



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Second Sorrowful Mystery

Pillar stained by blood

Chains that held you down

Scourged for us all

As your blood soaked in the ground

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

St. Patrick Limerick

There once was a Brit named Patrick
Who, a slave, escaped fast and slick
He came back a priest
To teach greatest and least
And the snakes left the island real quick


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Joshua Fahey

Climb the Mountain

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Joshua Fahey

Third Station

Jesus falls the first time.

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Second Station

Jesus carries his cross

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Invisible Light Haiku

Invisible light
Hiding behind the sky’s veil
Countless pins sparkle

Invisible God
Hiding behind bread and wine
His life giving blood



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Prayer for Wisdom

O Wisdom, increase my thirst for thee
Holy Spirit, increase my sufferings
That I will continue the search for God
And not for earthly things



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

The Mundane in the Splendid

The mundane in the splendid
The splendid in mundane
We are mud, with the breath of God
Dirt and holy rain

Sin leads to dirt, demise
And prayer leads to God
We follow Him through the desert
Or we are following a fraud

Repent! Repent!
Cries the voice, cries aloud
Repentance is humility
Have pity for we are proud




God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

First Sorrowful Mystery

Among olives, blood

By anxiety overcome

Praying for relief

To your will, I succumb

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Original Sin

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

First Station

Jesus is Condemned to Death

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Stone Bread

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

No Fun?

On the whole as typists pray
Into long and glorious hay
I stand, blindly staring at the sun
Bored throughout by lack of fun

Then my lips began to pray
Thank you for horses eating hay
Thank you for the searing sun
Please give me some sense of fun

I beseech thee Lord, I pray
As others lie down in hay
As all begin sleeping, even the sun
Why do I no longer have fun?

Through night I stand and pray
Not touching God’s glorious hay
Until all woke with the magnificent sun
But still, God did not give me fun

A voice cried out, I heard it say
Repent! Let your foolishness be done
I give loving joy both night and day
Come back to me my little one




God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday

Preventing my soul from gaining rust
I walk the desert and taste its dust
Gaining wisdom through Charity's lash
I pray repentance to my Lord with ash



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

The Last Time

It's the fat twos' day to sing Alleluia and Gloria. Listen well, it is the last time for a while that we will hear those words.

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Thunder Round Me Sparks!

Flash! Thunder round me sparks!
With might of God, the holy arcs.
Pelted by the rain, I laugh!
i am too euphoric by half.

And down the hull, the deck, the mast
And down I go, I am the last
The angels dueling all the while
I see the master and I smile.




God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Flower

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>P<

Joshua Fahey

Flowers Grow

Flowers grow by my grace
They do not worry
In peace seek my face
Not in noisome flurry




God bless,
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Joshua Fahey