Faith was beheaded and disembodied,
to an anthem of “Faith alone!” they cried.
Faith was removed far from human action,
in the name of God for our protection.
Now faith is a word and an idea alone,
faith’s garment for grace we now must bemoan;
is no longer clothed by works of loving,
her beauty no longer manifesting.
The demons laughing uproariously,
witnessing faith embodied take a knee:
Her potency now denied!
Her ontology now decried!
Without the fight for our divinity,
faith by necessity will atrophy.
Labors of love and ascetic action,
are our pathway with grace to salvation.
What human ever loved without doing;
what madness instead calls this condemning?
Man no longer desiring divinely,
directs his love to everything worldly.
Listen to the words of the Lord intoned:
“I love those who by My commands they do,”
but we who by our words of faith alone,
reveal us as the ones He never knew.
~FS
Prayerful Life 