Advent and Other Hopes That Follow a Year of Jubilee
Sometimes Mercy, Sometimes Grace
It is the Year of Jubilee.
I walked through Holy Doors,
prayed an “Our Father,”
spoke quietly to Mary. I enjoyed
special mercy only God can impart
on Tuesday in Charlotte at the Cathedral.
Today I made a Spiritual Communion,
missing Sunday Mass. I longed to go
but could not.
Today and every day, Father,
You give me the promised “daily bread.”
Sometimes that bread is mercy,
but today I needed grace.
You blessed me and gave me Yourself,
joined me to You with a bond
no one can break.
About the Author
A former English teacher, Helen Losse is the author of ten collections of poetry, including A Flower More Enduring (Main Street Rag, 2021). Her poems have been anthologized in Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII: North Carolina, and Kakalak 2014, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for a Best of the Net award. She is Poetry Editor Emeritus for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and a former Associate Poetry Editor for Kentucky Review. She is married and has two grown sons. A Christian her entire life, Helen entered the Catholic Church on Holy Saturday in 2015 to grow closer to Jesus.
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