All Soul's Day Meditation
A meditation for today, All Soul’s Day, by Fr. Greg Friedman, OFM
Cemetery, Fornoli, Italy
Soft golden light
Transfixes
The figures standing at each grave,
Transforms
Our muted assemblage of the living
Into the shining communion
We seek with those
Who rest alongside marble saints,
And wait for resurrection.
Our ancestors,
Transcendent somehow
In their formal portraits,
Best-dressed uncles and ancient aunts
Framed in ovals of silver
Affixed to each tomb.
They stare primly forward,
And wait.
We are momentary
And then move slowly on
Down the path to the shrouded town
And on into the burnished sunset.
©2002 Greg Friedman, OFM
Poet and photographer Fr. Greg Friedman, OFM, is Creative Director for Franciscan Media Production; American Catholic Radio and “Sunday Soundbites” Host; “Ask a Franciscan” parish resource and serves as pastor of St. Francis Seraph church in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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