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Will men understand the mysterious language of those tears?                                                              Pope Pius XII October 17, 1954

  
I went there

Basilica Santuario Madonna Delle Lacrime 

Siracusa, Sicily

Weeping Madonna

housed in the architecture of a tear

I took a photo there

ignorant of its meaning

until now

when asked to fill a space with poetry

and now

I want to know the meaning of those tears

Does she weep for His suffering

or for the plight of a humanity

trying to return to God?

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NaPoWriMo Day 4 prompt.  I took my own photo of the Basilica Santuario Madonna Delle Lacrime in October 2019, not knowing that it was home of the weeping Madonna.  

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Greater Works

based on John 14:12 Aramaic Bible

Noah did a great work

       Moses too

Abraham was father to Issac

       did not have to make a sacrifice of him

                  became the father of faith

Jonah finished his task 

         after much travail and prayer

                   from the belly of a fish and was still

                               mad at GOD

Jesus did great works

           some we will never know of

Peter and Paul led the blind to see

            and Jesus said 
  

                       Timeless truth, I tell you: ‘whoever believes in Me,

                       those works which I have done, he will also do,

                       and he will do greater works than these, because

                       I am going to the presence of my Father.’

Expect greater works