Ordination Poem by Steven Federle

“What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” Thomas Merton
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo
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deep in the cathedral
love resounds

through the bright air
of paradise
love rebounds
playful, full of
prayer.

Oh, hear the organ’s
profundo ring
as love pierces
your living heart

as, prostrate,
love breaks open
your breathless soul;

for indeed,

to deeply love
is to see the face
of God.