I've always loved this and thought I'd share it here:
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino
acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of
Earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.
Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle,
and crushed by remonstrance.
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino
acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of
Earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.
Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle,
and crushed by remonstrance.
