Verses for Lent

Click on the links for the poems in full.

"Riddle this me, a thing that's three,
 and yet is only one."
"That is the blessed Trinity,
Father, Ghost, and Son."

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/03/paradox-for-lent.html

The caterpillar   with shrivelled skin

in a tent of silk    was laid therein.

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/locked-room-mystery-redivivus.html

"This wench was taken in the act  of foul adultery.

 The law of Moses says she dies. Now you – What's she to thee?

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/04/taken-in-adultery.html

When Christ arose from out the grave

    Oh the leaves drop down in autumn

then some did doubt and some believe.

    and the cherry blooms in spring

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/04/ballad-of-doubting-thomas.html

Stabat mater dolorosa
iuxta Crucem lacrimosa,
dum pendebat Filius.

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/04/stabat-mater.html

"Who touched me?" cried the Christ aloud

and sternly stared among the crowd.

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/03/healing-of-jesus.html