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MONEY ORDER ANGELS

With fingers seamed in sweet potato dirt
  The migrant farm workers
  Count out new hundred dollar bills
  For money orders
  Starchily dispensed
  By the clerk.
  
  When the winged god
  Of the U.S. Postal Service
  Scatters those bills across Mexico,
  Children have shoes and notebooks for school
  Beans and a chicken on Sunday
  Grandmother gets new teeth
  And wives smile at husband memories.
 
 Like an Advent Angel
 Announcing that this birth counts 
 That someone can be counted on
 The money orders fly
 On filaments of faith
 To brighten
 Barest rooms.

Sr. Evelyn Mattern
 

 

Quotable Archive

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• A PRAYER TO THE CREATOR •
• A PRAYER FOR OUR EARTH •
• ON TURNING •
• Prayer for Peace •
• Pentecost •
• Second Synod of Orange •
• 7 Social Sins •
• The Homily •
• Resurrection •
• Sin Is Something that Changes... •
• AND THEN... •
• The Winter Journey of Advent •
• A Prayer For the World •
• Come Home •
• A New Psalm •
• A blessing for Preachers •
• Christmas In A Prison Cell •
• Compare Reading the Scriptures With Eating the Eucharist... •
• DOMINICAN PREACHER •
• Eastering •
• For Me To Preach... •
• Formulas •
• I Am Disciple •
• Indeed Any Sermon... •
• Jesus, Light of the World, Come •
• Lament For A Son •
• Lenten Penance •
• Litany of Non-Violence •
• Lovelight •
• Making the House Ready for the Lord •
• Money Order Angels •
• Ongoing Listening •
• On Jordan's Bank •
• Peace Prayer •
• Preacher •
• Preaching At Weddings •
• Preaching Is Dangerous •
• Preaching Has As Its Primary Purpose... •
• Seeds of Contemplation •
• The Homily Is Not... •
• The Difference Between Dead and Living Sermons •
• The Dominican Family •
• The Natural World •
• The Season of Pentecost •