
Mystic Priest – Coming Into the Presence of God, by D.B. Wilde is a themed collection of Christian poetry. It reflects a period where a priest of this world and subsequent afterworld brought life’s spiritual happenings to the forefront of awareness.
It’s obviously not your usual type of Christian stuff.
Buy it at Amazon. It’s also available from Barnes and Noble (Nook), ibooks/itunes (iPad).
Locals remember when Father Louis Guanella, an Italian priest from the 1900’s opened the miracle door in America, while the world peaked in.

MIRACLE DOOR
In America’s town
a skateboarder crashes
resulting in brain trauma.
A youth inside looking out
pleads to “bring me home,”
while doctors remove
his front temporal lobe.
Survival, meet vegetative state,
injected lunch with eyelids closed
a mother’s tears fall, resolved by faith
bound by love, a prayer request
brings Blessed Louis Guanella
across the divide to the healing line,
bone relics arrive first
banded around the wrist.
Faith breeds a miraculous recovery,
reborn youth discusses his ordeal
over a cup of tea
as befuddled doctors
vouch to The Higher Power
and a Blessed is made a Saint.
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Saint Louis (Luigi) Guanella was canonized on October 23, 2011. His Feast Day is coming up on October 24th.
Don Guanella Village was founded in the mid 70‘s in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It includes a school for teenagers with developmental delays. So when Don Guanella performed a miracle recently in a nearby town, it was extra special.
Read more about this saint and the religious order he founded
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A couple more poems by D.B. Wilde …
On a hot summer night, guided by the light of a full moon, I invited several Saints to walk and pray the rosary. It was such a memorable walk, I promised the Saints they would be in the poem collection. Well here they are!

WALKING THE ROSARY
Walking down the road,
no digital reminder
as invitees show up
to pray the rosary.
Norbert greets the arrival of Katharine Drexel; Ignatius Loyola laughs with Francis Xavier; Catharine Laboure pours love to Rita of Cascia; Gianna Molla races to John Neumann and Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Philomena engulfs the group
with Mystic Priest in hand,
souls streaming by moonlight,
all side by side
walking down the road
praying the rosary.
Coming forward is Paul the Hermit, Thomas of Villanova, Thomas Aquinas; alas Augustine arrives with Padre Pio and Francis of Assisi. Enter patron Basil the Great alongside Macrina the Younger, Anthony of Padua,
Vincent de Paul and Patrick of Ireland.
Joined by soldiers at play;
Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael,
are elated and smiling widely
for our glorious Queen Mary
is walking among us.
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THREE HEAVENS
Satan walks proud and visible
having previously defined
his authority over First Heaven
by what was given to him,
he flaunts it, offering
wayward minds carnal delights.
God buffets between
heaven and earth
seemingly everywhere,
teaching Saints
omnipresence. Ignatius, a pupil
in God’s Seven Stars class,
leaves divine love snippets
to the earthly Jesuit community
to counteract Satan’s deeds.
First Heaven’s liquid moon
illuminates the night sky,
as sunrise lifts the day,
life’s transformation begins
from time, space and nature
to another state of being.
By His presence,
eagles soar
beyond the cirrus clouds
into the exosphere,
the enigmatic Second Heaven,
the galactic battleground
of raging divine warfare
within interstellar black holes.
In the Third Heaven
elliptical eyes
suspended in space, float inside
the new Jerusalem, a heaven merged
with a jeweled earth
a paradise with no sun and no moon.
Oneness with His presence,
the Cosmic Christ manifests Himself
into our non-human form
whenever and wherever
He wishes.
October 21, 2012
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