Lord. please grant that my medically afflicted situation
(regardless of its troubled inconvenience or duration),
may become a prayer in perpetuity
wth the Liturgical calendar to give it continuity;
so that even the pains that agonize in my core
shall rise above torn tissue or ulceration---
as well as the manufacture of sediment and stones---
to achieve inclusion and participation
in the Blessed Holy Spirit's unutterable groaning.
And if this season proves itself to be my lasy Lent,
I pray, You, let me serve it in prayer without procrastination:
until, I am called from this world and its strifes to soar
to You, Lord, becoming in your presence the more
Starward, and its emblem the color---Coerulescent.
Starwardist . . . in chrismation, Januarius