Cake OR ice cream? Burger OR fries?
Happy OR holy? Daring OR wise?
Law OR freedom? Science OR Creed?
Blood and sweat and tears OR
Patient prayers
I’ll need?

Love my neighbor OR my Lord?
Save the planet OR save the poor?
Dimes and quarters have two sides
Serve wherever in disguise
God mourns
Or cries

Adore at Mass OR past closed doors?
Implore at church OR bedroom floor?
Confess to priest OR in one’s mind?
Not OR but AND to find
The Lord
Enshrined

But does God speak through verse OR pope?
Transcendent OR descending near?
Is Christ in man OR in the Host?
While in the latter, Present most

In both, to be

Revered

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

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