Liturgical Resources for World AIDS Day

Suggested Poetry

I Think Continually of Those by Stephen Spender
Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay

All Souls by May Sarton

In Whom We Live and Move and Have our Being by Denise Levertov

The Undetectable by Rafael Campo

A Daily Affirmation (from POZ magazine, February/March 2001)

I am grateful today to be alive.
Let me live each moment of this day attentively, 
 consciously and intentionally, with an open mind 
 and an open heart.
This day let my hopes for healing of mind, body 
 and spirit become visible in my life.
 
I am grateful for my body, for each breath I draw, 
 for the blood in my veins, for the cells of which I 
 am composed.
May I treasure this body with every act of eating, 
 breathing, sleeping, feeling, lovemaking, 
 exercising, and with every pill I ingest. 
 
I am grateful for the people I know and have 
 known, friends and lovers living and dead, those 
 I love and see, and those I love and no longer 
 see; for love that is stronger than death and for
 love that never ends.
 
Each day help me to connect with the diversity of 
 human creation, young and old, positive and
 negative, every race, gender and orientation.
Keep me passionate and engaged in creating a 
 world of justice, free from prejudice and poverty, 
 where everyone is valued, loved and free.
 
May my awareness of mortality inspire me to live 
 abundantly, here and now.
May I live in expectation of a cure for HIV in my 
 lifetime.
 
Let my life be a prayer, my dreams a reality.

-J.M.