We were just boys at that time, teen-agers who ardently wanted to be priests . . .As was common practice in the 1940s, candidates for the priesthood were sought in Catholic grade schools and those young teenagers who felt called went off to a Preparatory Seminary and were introduced to a formation that profoundly transformed their lives. Their training was rigorous, but kind and gentle.
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Friday, October 26, 2007
98. Finding Words ~
How many poems
have mothers
sighed
to You
from their beds
of labor
when
the pain
subsides?
What words
do monks find
evenings
in August
when lying
on pallets
of straw
while outside
the hay
is drying
in the fields?
~
Wie viele Gedichte
haben Mütter geseufzt zu Dir
von ihren Wehe-Betten
wenn der Schmerz abgenommen hat?
Welche Worte finden Mönche
abends im August
wenn sie sich ausstrecken
auf Strohpritschen
während draußen
auf den Fledern
das Heu trocknet?
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