The Shroud of Turin Ascension Thursday May 2010
by Joe Marmion
To see the face of Christ, to see the wounds he suffered, the wounds of the scourging were particularly visible as dots and dashes all over His body.
Not an I blinded eye
came to read
the silent summation
of your dying
on that Thursday
You ascended.
Shredded flesh on
shredded linen,
The Morse Code
of “I am risen.”
Dying shameful
Buried well.
Joyful crying on a day
of acclamation
with this pilgrim ecclesiae
Confident in a conviction
that nothing can prevail
Not then, not now
not even to the
Gates of Hell
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