( Feathered winds come dance with me Lift me from the ground. )

( My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. )

( When I ring thrice, thrice devoutly greet the Mother of Christ )

 [ † ] Head down, shoulders hunched, the imposing man retreats into the heavily creased folds of his cassock, shying back into the shadow of St. Peter's when the sharply biting wind threatened to tear the fibres of his skin. The rising, first-quarter moon shone silver in the reflection of his spectacles, darkening skies encasing him in its chill.

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( Be kind; Be vigilant; Be sober; For you know not when the Peril Cometh. )

† Isaiah 10:16-20 †

[ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they ( Read more... )