Parish Consolidations and Rumors of Parish Consolidations - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Parish Consolidations and Rumors of Parish Consolidations

 

“I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change.

We hold on. I say great good will come of it.”

 

-Trufflehunter in C. S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian

 

I don’t suppose Saint Peter sent surveys

Or that Saint Paul politely polled the people

But that’s how bishops do such things these days

With an access code on the InterThing

 

502 Bad Gateway

 

Rumor Control and Gossip Central say

That our parish is for the chopping block

     (maybe re-purposed as a shopping block)

Worse things have happened; we’ve been pilgrims before

So as the Lord leads us, we will follow Him

 

Again

 

The Altar, Sacrifice, and Word are Truth

And where we are sent to serve, there we will serve