Saturday of the First Week of Lent

"Lost Home on Perelli Drive #10" by James W. Bailey

Evil Digital Photography

Perelli Drive - An East New Orleans Lenten Season Memorial Art Project

Readings for Mass

First Reading: Deuteronomy 26:16-19

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8

Gospel: Matthew 5:43-48

From Ash Wednesday by James W. Bailey

A poem...Visual death walks over my sanctified burial ground...Visual death plants a red plastic rose above my simple wilted heart...Visual death drops a tear onto my red clay form...Visual death sits in the folding chair of dark dress deceit...Visual death absorbs the eulogy of words from an aesthetic crypt...Visual death lingers for me to die to the world...that dies to itself.