Saturday, December 11, 2021

Assorted Broken Saints, Some with Parts Missing - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Assorted Broken Saints, Some with Parts Missing

 

A petition to Saint John Marie-Baptiste Vianney

 

After doing some time in this fallen world

We all are broken, and missing a few of our parts

Having lost some hopes and strengths along the way

But we keep chooglin’ along, making it work

 

And shoveling (life) with us, our parish priest

Just as Chaucer wrote, beginning at dawn

Five of six cylinders from church to church

Ignored by the bishop and unknown to Rome

 

Our daily saint in his well-worn chasuble

His old shoes squeaking to the Altar of God

 

Saint John Vianney, pray for our laborers

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