{"id":24467,"date":"2009-03-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/i-am-the-great-sun\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T10:00:00","slug":"i-am-the-great-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/i-am-the-great-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I am the Great Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am the Great Sun<\/font><\/p>\n

(from a Normandy<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> crucifix of 1632)<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

I am the great sun, but you do not see me,<\/font><\/p>\n

I am your husband, but you turn away.<\/font><\/p>\n

I am the captive, but you do not free me,<\/font><\/p>\n

I am the captain you will not obey.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

I am the truth, but you will not believe me,<\/font><\/p>\n

I am the city where you will not stay.<\/font><\/p>\n

I am your wife, your child, but you will leave me,<\/font><\/p>\n

I am that God to whom you will not pray.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

I am your counsel, but you do not hear me,<\/font><\/p>\n

I am the lover whom you will betray.<\/font><\/p>\n

I am the victor, but you will not cheer me,<\/font><\/p>\n

I am the holy dove whom you will slay.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

I am your life, but you will not name me,<\/font><\/p>\n

Seal up your soul with tears, and never blame me.<\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Charles Causely<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

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\n\"Charles<\/a><\/span>Charles Causley was born and has lived, apart from six years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, in Launceston, Cornwall<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. In 1990 he was awarded the Ingersol\/TS Eliot Award, given to authors “of abiding importance whose work affirms the moral principles of western civilization.” This poem appears in Collected Poems<\/i>, published by Macmillan. Dr. Ron Thomas assistant professor of theology at Belmont<\/st1:placename> Abbey<\/st1:placename> College<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> wrote the meditations for the Way of the Cross published this Spring (2009) and this poem is included therein.<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am the Great Sun (from a Normandy crucifix of 1632)   I am the great sun, but you do not see me, I am your husband, but you turn away. I am the captive, but you do not free me, I am the captain you will not obey.   I am the truth, but … Continue reading I am the Great Sun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,60],"tags":[1881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}