Gary Edward Geraci

Veronica’s Face

 

Played a short podcast and prayed while a sage

Relayed the finer points of meditative

Prayer. Proposed rather recently, a response

While seeking spiritual direction: the

Exciting of the imagination. Citing

Saints who draw union: picture; feel the warm

Hands of Jesus Christ pressing against either

Side; face cupped by soft palms and fingers that

Caress. Yet, why should I recoil? But I do!

 

I’m a man. The only way I can imagine

This love of Jesus is to imitate,

Image His identity; a mere moment:

To place and press my hands on either side of

Veronica’s face. Ah, it’s then love flows.

 

Gary Edward Geraci

 

Moved with pity, Veronica wipes the face of Jesus Christ as he carries his cross along the Via Dolorosa to Golgotha. The Sixth Station of the Cross