Farewell to Jack, aka “Lucky Girl”

July 30, 2016 / Denise Marie Siino / Denise Marie Siino, Life, Lucky Girl

I knew the first time you held my hand,walking past window displays in Naples and seeing our reflection in the glass– the difference in our ages blustered away in the sea breeze –that the spark between us was not a passing fancy. When “Longer” played on the radio, when we danced to Ann Murrayor crooned […]

O our Father, you who reside in the heavens, not as one limited, but because of the greater love you have for those first effects there on high:

Praised be your name and your power by every creature, given that it is fitting to render thanks for your sweet breath.

May the peace of your kingdom come to us, for if it doesn’t come toward us, we are impotent by ourselves, even if we try with all of the strength of our intellect.

And just as angels render their own desires up to you as sacrifice, singing ‘Hosanna,’ so too may human beings do the same with theirs.

Give to us today the daily manna, without which he who grows weary in going forward goes backward through this dry desert.

And as we take that evil we have suffered and pardon it, to every man you, too, pardon with clemency, and you do not consider whether we have merit.

This, our virtue that is overcome so easily,
do not put it to the test by the ancient adversary, but deliver us from him who goads it [to evil].

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