{"id":3491,"date":"2009-01-07T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T12:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/all-that-has-gone-before\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T19:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T18:26:34","slug":"all-that-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/all-that-has-gone-before\/","title":{"rendered":"All that has gone before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/08adorat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/08adorat-thumb-300x336.jpg\" alt=\"08adorat.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<em>A wise and dear friend wrote me from her cloister for the feast of the Epiphany. By God&#8217;s providence, our lives, with their changes and chances, have been intertwined for over twelve years. Reflecting on the mystery of my call to Tulsa, she says:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you you know the poem <em>The Wise<\/em> by Brother Antoninus, O.P.? It is a favorite of mine and I thought of you as I read it today. All that has gone before in your life was not so much a search, but a preparation. What you have been called to fits perfectly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>I thank my friend for her message. Here is the poem:<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe Wise<\/strong><br \/>\nMiles across the turbulent kingdoms<br \/>\nThey came for it, but that was nothing,<br \/>\nThat was the least. Drunk with vision,<br \/>\nRain stringing in the ragged beards,<br \/>\nWhen a beast lamed, they caught up another<br \/>\nAnd goaded west.<br \/>\nFor the time was on them.<br \/>\nOnce, as it may, in the life of a man,<br \/>\nOnce, as it was, in the life of mankind,<br \/>\nAll is corrected. And their years of pursuit,<br \/>\nRaw-eyed reading the wrong texts,<br \/>\nCharting the doubtful calculations,<br \/>\nThose nights knotted with thought,<br \/>\nWhen dawn held off, and the rooster<br \/>\nRattled the leaves with his blind assertion&#8212;<br \/>\nAll that, they regarded, under the Sign,<br \/>\nNo longer as search but as preparation.<br \/>\nFor when the mark was made, they saw it.<br \/>\nNor stopped to reckon the fallible years,<br \/>\nBut rejoiced and followed,<br \/>\nAnd are called &#8220;wise&#8221;, who learned that Truth,<br \/>\nWhen sought and at last seen,<br \/>\nIs never found. It is given.<br \/>\nAnd they brought their camels<br \/>\nBreakneck into that village,<br \/>\nAnd flung themselves down in the dung and dirt of that place,<br \/>\nAnd kissed that ground, and the tears<br \/>\nRan on their faces, where the rain had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wise and dear friend wrote me from her cloister for the feast of the Epiphany. By God&#8217;s providence, our lives, with their changes and chances, have been intertwined for over twelve years. Reflecting on the mystery of my call to Tulsa, she says: Do you you know the poem The Wise by Brother Antoninus, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmastide","category-personal-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Uj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24621,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions\/24621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}