Announcing the Investiture of Postulant Erin!

Sewing hands and singing hearts proclaim at Bethlehem Monastery of Poor Clares that there will soon be a new novice in our midst!  Postulant Erin will receive the Holy Habit of our Mother St. Clare this Saturday, November 9^th, feast of St. John Lateran Cathedral.  She begins her retreat tomorrow to prepare her soul for the great event even as we continue to prepare her monastic trousseau.  Please join us in prayer for her preparation.

Erin has a great love for the Psalms and so I am sure she will be using these ancient forms of prayer in the coming days.  Here is a poem she wrote, celebrating the place the Holy Psalter has in her life:

Key of David

The key is the Tree

Master the riddle

since nothing

shall pass

Not one jot nor tittle

‘til He comes to pass

through the lock

of

 Leviathan’s depths…

so come now Nocturnal

to bar, gate, and

lock,

break open the seal

O Verbum Supernal.

Lift up the gates with Your

David’s 150

with Your Canticum

Novum

with Your Paschal

Mystery

This wheat crush and sift

Your Passion

inside me

Your Passion

inside me.