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Brown skin, kneeling and anointing to brown skin, genuflecting and “Sign of the Cross”-a Black girl’s experience
1. Qualitative Inquiry
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Brown Skin, Kneeling and Anointing to Brown Skin, Genuflecting
and "Sign of the Cross": A Black Girl's Experience With Religious
Conversion
Michele Battle-Fisher
Qualitative Inquiry published online 9 April 2009
DOI: 10.1177/1077800409334186
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3. 2 Qualitative Inquiry
My God, I kept thinking, could be found in my solitude,
As the spirituals of old stirred the inner rafters of my spirit.
But then if my God could be found in my silent beatitude as well,
Then am I a charlatan? Dear Mother of Jesus, how could I know their God?
“O, Absolution”
Dear Heavenly Father, Penance is a Holy Sacrament.
Whether the sin, mortal or venial, I am in negotiations with the Holy See.
Father Ron begins: “What is the trouble, my daughter?”
Stained-glass seeped translucence veiled with the sweetness of incense
Becomes my familiar center. Holy light shrouds me.
Remittance begged. Grace received.
“Give thanks to the Lord for He is good.”
Holy rosaries and “Our Fathers.”
Must hurry for Sister Mary Catherine behind me
Has rubbed the countenance off St. Jude.
Perfection is never achieved. Lord, hear my prayer.
Thank God for liturgy.
I am your child.
Absalom. Amen.
Michele Battle-Fisher is presently pursuing a Doctorate in Public Health from the Ohio
State University. Her intellectual pursuits include health promotion, health communication,
bioethics and medical humanities.
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