A POEM FOR SIMON
From Give no end of Praise (c)1993
by Sister Mary Faith Schuster. OSB

They are sitting at the table
with Simon. It is evening
when she come in with the
alabaster box of ointment.

"Why do you trouble this woman?"
He says, "For she has done
a beautiful thing to Me."
It is just before the arrest

in the garden. Today we
carry alabaster boxes full
full of ointment to one another
the beautiful thing to Him.

And He will not let anyone
trouble us. Whatever we do
of love is done to Him

and cautiously do we ourselves

come to believe in beauty,
come to believe we are ourselves
offering it and letting the
skies these harsh and droughtful

days become something Simon
will never forget.
"I didn't know," he said,
years afterwards. "I didn't

know or I never would have
missed what was happening."

But we know and the radiance
fills the house each day

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