Hair Shirt

Every needle of impatience

Like a hair, like John the Baptist

Like feet, Peter’s reluctance

Like a last meal

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

I Love You

Jesus, I love you

You've made me free to love you

You've helped me hope to love you

You are my love that loves you

In peace and joy

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Holy Thursday

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Joshua Fahey

Humble Lord

My Lord, why dost thou bend thy knee?
Why dost thou have humility?
Thou whose breath has conquered storms
Why take on such humble forms?
Thou who sat on the Creator's seat
Why art thou bent to wash my feet?
Thou who is outside of time
Why give thyself as bread and wine?



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Joshua Fahey

You Know

You know my thoughts
You know why I
Fear to show my feet
You know my doubts
You know my lie
And my eventual defeat



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Joshua Fahey

Food

Food is philosophical
Bread sates and wine sustains
Meals are joy with kith and kin
Even when it rains

Food is theological
For a body-soul
In gratitude we eat to live
Grace that makes us whole





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Joshua Fahey

Holy Thursday

One last meal before we split
A tempered party of gloomy joy
But one last thing I do remit
My blood as wine, my body as bread
To remember me after I'm dead
With loving hearts, and with joy
Amongst our family I will be split



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>P<
Joshua Fahey

Thankful Haiku

Body wine bread blood
Meal and sacrifice of love
Under the bleak skies

Bleak burden lifted
Embraced accepted and held
Cold ground broken body



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Joshua Fahey

Chalice of Blessing

Our chalice of blessing
Blood and body
Life and divinity
Sacrifice unbloody
Who lies as slain
The lamb and priest
Blessed name
Our chalice of blessing



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey