Catholic Rap

Catholic Rap

Imperceptible is the interlude
From ‘You’ and ‘me’ into ‘us’ (Us!).
God spoke and made me out of dust (Dust!);
Absolutely! Love is Spontaneous!

I already owe God all that I am
but, blinded by death’s vile band,
I tore his heart and I pierced it too,
I nailed his feet and I nailed his hands.

There’s a fountain gushing
to eternal life;
a river flowing
from the wounded Christ.

The flowing water is Baptism.
Eucharist is his blood.
“…I absolve you from all your sins…” is Redemption
residing in God!

His face can do nothing
but manifest love.
I attempt to follow
his voice – the Person of Love.

The Spirit consoles me
The Spirit controls me
Now I will complain and I will lament!
Give me satisfaction and give me rest!

Embrace me with
Your strong right hand;
uphold my head
with that of Your left.

Set me as a seal of
love on Your heart;
a seal as infinite
as the cling of an infant.

I am my Beloved’s
and my Beloved is mine.
I am my Beloved’s
Whose desire is kind.

Stay me with flagons
and comfort me with apples,
I am sick with love
And my heart is ravished.

God is Love.
(My body thirsts!)
Jesus is the Word
Who loved us first.


By: Simon-Peter Zak, 2007. (Includes quotes from Holy Scriptures, especially Song of Songs and St. John; also from John Paul II’s Love and Responsibility and St. Bernard of Clairveaux’s On Loving God.)