Poems and Prayers

Poems and Prayers appropriate to the Liturgical Calendar, Feast Days or Special Events.

The poem for the month of July is especially for the St Anne’s Homeschooling First Communicants and starts with the image of the Tabernacle key.

A Child’s Wish
By Abram J. Ryan

I wish I were the little key
That locks Love’s Captive in,
And lets him out to go and free
A sinful heart from sin.

I wish I were the little bell
That tinkles for the Host,
When God comes down each day to dwell
With hearts He loves the most.

I wish I were the little chalice fair,
That holds the Blood of Love,
When every gleam lights holy prayer
Upon its way above.

I wish I were the little flower
So near the Host’s sweet face,
Or like the light that half an hour
Burns on the shrine of grace.

I wish I were the altar where,
As on His mother’s breast,
Christ nestles, like a child, fore’er
In Eucharistic rest.

But, oh, my god, I wish the most
That my poor heart may be
A home all holy for Host
That comes, in love, to me.