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From, Love Poems from God; Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Daniel Ladinsky, ed.  This one by St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

                   Consecrated

            All has been consecrated.
    The creatures in the forest know this,

the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know
          as does the heart full of
                      love.

    Strange a priest would rob us of this
                   knowledge

       and then empower himself
               with the ability
   
         to make holy what
                already was.