Audrey Synnott, RSM, holds a BA from Vassar College and an MA in English from the University of Buffalo of State University of New York. She has a background in teaching English in grade school and high school. She served as poetry editor of Sisters Today until the magazine closed. She undertook training in spiritual direction through the Sisters of Mercy Prayer Center in Rochester in the mid 1980s and offers her accompaniment today. For several years she was coordinator of the Sisters of Mercy Associate Program in Rochester. She continues to write prose and poetry. Her poetry has previously been published in The MAST Journal.
We Rise We rise in your flaming, Holy One: the wind of your wisdom stirs A cry within us asking Mercyon our humanness, weak with wrongs. You forget unworthiness as you see the slightest turningto another way not yet yours but closer. From afar you sense our change and distance is no more: your welcome cleanses us; in tears we rise. Pentecost 2020 — Audrey