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Devotion

Dom Helder Camara’s pastoral poems

Two of Dom Helder Camara’s best (pastoral) poems (from A Thousand Reasons for Living, pp. 63, 112):
By the grace You grant me
of silence without loneliness,
give me the right to plead,
to clamour
for my brothers and sisters
imprisoned in
a loneliness without silence!

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It is worth any sacrifice,
however great or costly,
to see eyes that were listless
light up again,
to see someone smile
who seemed to have forgotten
how to smile;
to see trust reborn
in someone
who no longer believed
in anything
or Anyone.

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