Chipping Sparrow
The nascent day makes itself known like a blue-orange Rothko on the horizon. The new day and new year knock at the door. Nature’s little announcer is perched at the summit of a fig tree. Like diminutive cathedral bells, a chipping sparrow proclaims the morning. It is a call to pay homage to the rising radiance, an appeal to be awed by the beauty, a notice to listen to the brief hymn. He sounds his little music to begin the procession of creation. Violet and rose, the infant light of dawn, the great and mighty sun, together they slowly enter the presence of man’s vision. They come with unstoppable power following the little arrow shot from a wooden tower by the tiny chipping sparrow.
--Br. Ignatius Peacher, O. Cist.
Br. Ignatius Peacher, O. Cist. was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Texas. He obtained a BA at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, and a master’s of architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. He entered the Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas in 2005 and made temporary vows in 2006. Currently, he is a graduate student of theology at the University of Dallas.
