WHAT WILL WE DO?

What will we do when we’re free again?

Emerge from our cocoons: cells of self-knowledge,

*Catherine-like, God-infused, eager for mission?

Or will isolation be our sheathe,

content withdrawal from community’s demands,

from the world’s pain,

where millions complain, “I can’t breathe.”

Let us form thoughts that breathe

into being a new way of living.

Share words of hope, born of conviction and passion.

Listen to the heart of the other

beat a rhythm that connects

the ancient past to the unseen future

through the fragile present.

And then ………….

make a pact ………..

to act.

* St. Catherine of Siena was in self isolation for three years due to the Bubonic Plague.

Sr. Maeve McMahon OP