MARCHES

Michael Bolerjack

MARCHES 2013 Michael Bolerjack

In memory of a forgotten Pope That God can thunder, And that God can whisper, That God can speak as a friend, Or as a stern Father, But that the beatific vision Is not so much the vision of God, That we see Him, But that He sees us, Always and everywhere, We may draw the deduction That we must go and do likewise, Which means not in reciprocity As one might think, With God or with each other, But speak to myself, View myself, As God does, And care.

ON THE TITLE MARCHES The name of this book symbolically fulfills the vision of Faustina Kowalska concerning the Pillars marked M and S though which the ship of the church must pass safely to reach harbor. In this the book accompanies its companion volumes MARKS and MAKINGS. In the first there is the ARK, in the second A KING, and in this, the third volume, an ARCHE, the Greek word for beginning or rule or leader, and one of the chief words in early philosophy, as in the writings of the pre-Socratic Anaximander.

OF DEDICATION This work, and my life, my eyes and hands, all of me, are for the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose scribe I am. She is the Genius of the Work. I was converted to Christ on the memorial of her Sorrows and it was she who spoke to my wife-to-be in order that she and I might meet. I owe Mary everything and I thank her once again.