Patrick McCaskey is a Vice President and Director of the Chicago Bears, Chair of Sports Faith International, and Chair of WSFI Catholic Radio 88.5, as well as poet and the author of our Sports and Faith Series. He is also a grandson of George "Papa Bear" Halas. Surprising, inspiring, and all very human, Patrick McCaskey's Poems About the Gospel is a book for all seasons where readers can find a few words of encouragement in every poem. Poems About the Gospel is available from Sporting Chance Press, Amazon and select bookstores like the Little Way in Crystal Lake. Faith poems for you!
Writing Poems About Jesus
Jesus Christ Taught the Fullness of the Law II
Matthew 5:20-26
Christ wants us to be more than compliant.
You cannot be angry at your brother.
You can’t utter insults at your brother.
You cannot complain about your brother.
I have seven brothers: Mike, Tim, Ned, George,
Rich, Brian, and Joe. Jesus Christ had none.
This passage says no thanks to resentment,
Hatred, gossip, backbiting, and slander.
The Navarre Bible notes are instructive.
Saint Augustine noted there is a
Gradation in sin and in punishment.
If my brothers have something against me,
I have to get reconciliation.
Then I’m eligible to give money.
Patrick McCaskey
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