{"id":2120,"date":"2015-07-29T22:37:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T22:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2015-07-30T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:16:26","slug":"burning-zeal-rekindles-the-flame-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/burning-zeal-rekindles-the-flame-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Zeal Rekindles the Flame of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mary<\/a>
Mary Elizabeth and Peter Paul Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every so often as a writer I\u00a0get asked to write a tribute piece for someone about someone who is important to them. I love doing this as it celebrates the ordinary people, the real heroes of the world the meek who will “inherit the earth”. This is one such person, who would be 100 if alive today, raised a large family without modern conveniences\u00a0without complaint when today we have more modern conveniences and smaller families yet cannot see a way through life’s crises. Commissioned by her daughter Sr. Mary Carmel Smith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spirit of the Flame found among the ashes
\nFrom despair in the hearts of men
\nComes faith \u2013 like gold tried by fire
\nAnew from trial it blazes again…<\/p>\n

Her kind: they are the humble of heart
\nFaith filled, honest, upright, true
\nShe taught hers what she was taught
\nTo act, to speak, to be and do<\/p>\n

The Bread of Life at Daily Mass
\nSpiritual food for the day ahead
\nIn wholehearted service to all
\nWalked the darkest valleys unafraid.<\/p>\n

Stones reassembled, the grateful gather anew
\nTo celebrate their trials and joys
\nFaith renewed, rekindled, dawn breaks again
\nFaith\u2019s fire fear and folly destroys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every so often as a writer I\u00a0get asked to write a tribute piece for someone about someone who is important to them. I love doing this as it celebrates the ordinary people, the real heroes of the world the meek who will “inherit the earth”. This is one such person, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2290,7,23],"tags":[1630,524,116,42,2292,1276,2291],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-life","category-north-longford","tag-catholic","tag-faith","tag-granard","tag-longford","tag-meek-shall-inherit-the-earth","tag-poem","tag-tribute","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-yc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1701,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/our-lady-of-clonfert-bless-both-boston-and-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":2120,"position":0},"title":"Our Lady of Clonfert, Bless Both Boston and the World","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"19th April 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As Boston comes to terms with its tragedy, we pray to Mary who is venerated in both the Islamic and the Christian worlds to stop hearts hardening, and to see that the actions of a few are not the actions of all men. 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