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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Poem: “The Truth of Holy Saturday: Only the Wound is There” by Hans Urs von Balthasar

 Only the wound is there: 

gaping, the great open gate, the chaos, 

the nothingness out of which 

the wellspring leaps forth.

Never again will this gate be shut.

Just as the first creation arose ever anew

out of sheer nothingness, 

so too, this second world – 

still unborn, still caught up in its first rising – 

will have its sole origin in this wound, 

which is never to close again.

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