Unexpected, Sacramental.(Poem) From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: June 16, 2000| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2000 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

(In memory of Richard A. McCormick, SJ, 1922-2000)

   "Mom cries but we never see you 
   cry" the girls would tell me, 
   aware of the mystery 
   of their father, the otherness of men. 
 
   I would always assure them 
   I have and I do, to which these 
   doubting Thomasinas would reply: 
   "We want to see it." 
 
   On the morning of the third day 
   after he left us, we rose 
   to a blanket of snow, 
   unexpected, sacramental, white as 
   a great nephew's baptismal gown, 
   a niece's wedding dress, 
   his own funeral shroud. 
 
   Our ...

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