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Pentecost - Poem

National Catholic Reporter,  Sept 14, 2001  by Patricia Schnapp

   In the upper room
   Pentecostal wind
   swirled like a tornado of grace
   and fiery tongues
   burned language into stutterers.

   O Spirit,
   stir our passion again!
   Light wildfires
   and spin them past
   our tame intentions.

   Huff and puff till you blow down
   the shutters we hide in,
   scarred by earlier zests,
   more cowardly and cynical
   than once upon a time

   when we inhaled your fire
   and gulped your windstorms
   like tap water
   and laughed at those
   who counseled caution.

--Sr. Patricia Schnapp, RSM Adrian, Mich.

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