With the weird early date of Easter this year, Saint Jospeh is transferred to today, but today is normally John Donne’s feast day and on the last day of March I always thank God for him–KSH<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Almighty God, the root and fountain of all being: Open our eyes to see, with thy servant John Donne, that whatsoever hath any being is a mirror in which we may behold thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
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Batter my heart, three-person\u2019d God ; for you
\nAs yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
\nThat I may rise, and stand, o\u2019erthrow me, and bend
\nYour force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
\nI, like an usurp\u2019d town, to another due,
\nLabour to admit you, but O, to no end.
\nReason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
\nBut is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
\nYet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
\nBut am betroth\u2019d unto your enemy ;
\nDivorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
\nTake me to you, imprison me, for I,
\nExcept you enthrall me, never shall be free,
\nNor ever chaste, except you ravish me.<\/p>\n
\u201d\u201cHoly Sonnet XIV (my favorite)<\/p>\n
\u201cwhen all is done the hell of hels the torment of torments is the everlasting absence of God and the everlasting impossibility
\nof returning to his presence\u201d\u00a6.what tophet is not paradise what brimstone is not amber what gnashing is not a comfort what gnawing
\nof the worme is not a tickling what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation to be secluded eternally eternally eternally
\nfrom the sight of God\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
\u201d\u201cFrom his sermon Preached to the Earle of Carlile, and his Company, at Sion [? 1622]<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cThe church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does, belongs to all\u201d\u00a6.All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated\u201d\u00a6As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness\u201d\u00a6.No man is an island. entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend\u2019s or of thine own were; any man\u2019s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.<\/p>\n
\u201d\u201cFrom his Meditation XVII<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the weird early date of Easter this year, Saint Jospeh is transferred to today, but today is normally John Donne’s feast day and on the last day of March I always thank God for him–KSH. Almighty God, the root…<\/span><\/p>\n