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Introducing Donna Sue Berry: St. Monica, Please Pray for Me
Dear CSD Family, On this Memorial of St. Monica, we are blessed to introduce Donna Sue Berry, Catholic poet and author, who has started publishing her poems on-line, is working on the book “Catholic...
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Our Souls, They are Not Dead
OUR SOULS, THEY ARE NOT DEAD In silence late one evening, I found myself alone Enjoying for the moment some peacefulness at home. A steamy cup of coffee with a shot of Irish cream Had lulled me into...
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I Could Be You
I drove right through the changing light Horns blowing as I went. I had to make just one more store, Before the day was spent. . I swerved in time to miss a man Who held a cardboard sign. A homeless...
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Thank You God for Jesus
I truly now can say to you, as Christmas drifts away, This was an Advent to remember and a special Christmas day. Our families all had fasted and petitioned God for grace, With what a joy to see at...
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The Sweetest Heart of Jesus
THE SWEETEST HEART OF JESUS From the corner of my church pew, Sometimes I feel alone, When I see the happy couples, In love when I’m alone. + I hide behind my lacy veil, And duck my head to pray,...
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River of suffering – St. John of the Cross
Suffering And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name...
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Broken? – Introduction and Poem
I am an average, middle-aged wife and homemaker, mom and grandmother, from a small town in the Pacific Northwest who has been blessed to receive a spiritual conversion that truly changed my life. I...
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Broken? ~ Stanza I ~ Part I
In a world of broken people You alone can make us whole. Wounded hearts and minds and spirits, broken bodies, battered souls. USA, Summer of 2010; four years into my faith formation program, almost...
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Introducing Donna Sue Berry: St. Monica, Please Pray for Me
Dear CSD Family, On this Memorial of St. Monica, we are blessed to introduce Donna Sue Berry, Catholic poet and author, who has started publishing her poems on-line, is working on the book “Catholic...
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Our Souls, They are Not Dead
OUR SOULS, THEY ARE NOT DEAD In silence late one evening, I found myself alone Enjoying for the moment some peacefulness at home. A steamy cup of coffee with a shot of Irish cream Had lulled me into...
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I Could Be You
I drove right through the changing light Horns blowing as I went. I had to make just one more store, Before the day was spent. . I swerved in time to miss a man Who held a cardboard sign. A homeless...
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Thank You God for Jesus
I truly now can say to you, as Christmas drifts away, This was an Advent to remember and a special Christmas day. Our families all had fasted and petitioned God for grace, With what a joy to see at...
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The Sweetest Heart of Jesus
THE SWEETEST HEART OF JESUS From the corner of my church pew, Sometimes I feel alone, When I see the happy couples, In love when I’m alone. + I hide behind my lacy veil, And duck my head to pray,...
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Broken? – Stanza VIII – Part I
Broken? Blinded by success and praises, of our fellow man trek we. Developing more innovations, from pain and death to be set free. In 1965, members of the AmericanCollege of Obstetrics and Gynecology...
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Broken? Stanza X – Part I
Your call Dear Lord, is to something better, where peace and love and grace abound. The soul united with its Master, this is where true joy is found. I’ve lived most of my life in ignorance of what...
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Broken? Stanza X – Part II
Broken? Stanza X Part II Your call Dear Lord, is to something better, where peace and love and grace abound. The soul united with its Master, this is where true joy is found. The desire for God is a...
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Broken? – Stanza XII – Part I
Broken? Stanza XII Part I “No pain, No gain!” You led the way, and showed the path we too must find. Your saints remind us through example, on what to set our heart and mind. Human beings are noble...
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Broken? – Stanza XII – Part II
“No pain, No gain!” You led the way, and showed the path we too must find. Your saints remind us through example, on what to set our heart and mind. The lives of the saints and martyrs are full of...
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Questions to Our Lady of Sorrows (Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows)
QUESTIONS TO OUR LADY OF SORROWS While you stood there in the chaos, Could you see past all the pain, Past the sword that ripped your own soul To your son’s triumphant reign? Did the sands there of...
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Rosary on the Headboard — Poetry from Donna Sue Berry
Rosary on the Headboard I stumbled through my daily grind Right up until midnight, Then fell in bed without my prayers; I knew it wasn’t right. So tired I was, almost asleep, But thoughts kept waking...
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