Cake OR ice cream? Burger OR fries?
Law OR freedom? Faith OR science?
Happy OR holy? Wild OR wise?
Blood+sweat+tears OR
Faith and prayer
Reliance?

Adore at Mass OR past closed doors?
Confess to priest OR deep within?
The Word at church OR bedroom floor?
Not OR but AND, to win
The Lord
Therein

Love my neighbor OR my Lord?
Coins have ever hugging sides
Save the poor OR the unborn?
Serve wherever in disguise
God mourns
Or cries

Christ OR Mary? Who’ll suffice?
The knot the Eden pair tied taught
The NEW pair, sinless, would unsplice
This King and Queen, our spot
Of vice
Out-blot

Daughter of the Father OR Mother of His Son?
Virgin Most Chaste OR Spirit’s dear Bride?
Crushing snakes OR Victory won?
Normal girl OR spared
From sin
And pride?

Is God now heard through Verse OR Pope?
Transcendent OR descending near?
Is God in us OR in the Host?
The latter, most OR in both

To be

Revered?

Not OR but AND! He’s standing close
His ruses fade; His Face appears
For in each lad or lass… distressed
And in the “least of these”… oppressed
He’s often missably, in-explicably…
In each slum… surreptitiously…
In each child… hug and kissably…
Here

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For more, see https://catholic-resources.org/Both-And.htm