Service Welcome Opening Prayer Praise Sermon Offering Lord’s Prayer Dismiss.
Prayer Service
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University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies) Prayer Service Author(s): Thomas McCarthy Source: New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), p. 50 Published by: University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20557603 . Accessed: 17/06/2014 02:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies) is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.34.79.15 on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:36:51 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies)
Prayer ServiceAuthor(s): Thomas McCarthySource: New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), p. 50Published by: University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20557603 .
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Fil?ocht Nua: New Poetry
PRAYER SERVICE
Here, the vibrant life of Federal prayer.
April has put aside its damaged fruit blossom
in the late arrival of a rented preacher.
Let him make simple a while
what is complex, and always elsewhere.
When you think of the intelligence of America,
millions of the intelligent who inhabit
the sandstone Romanesque
of leafy quadrangles in the Midwest:
when you think of it, when you think
you wonder about the fluoridation of water
and the alum of education.
Something putrid always leaks through?
no country can be a glass fruit bowl.
America quite suddenly is in the world
where an apple cannot rot safely.
You cannot avoid it. The crowded pew
of April, the white chill getting through.
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