"The Intoxicating Poetry of Belief" - poem

Lawrence Hall

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“The Intoxicating Poetry of Belief”¹

 

 

From an idea by a fellow scrivener

 

And for the fellowship of these electric pages

 

 

Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam

 

The liturgy is a poem

A hymn of the universe ¹

That was

And is

And forever will be

Spoken and sung

 

Sometimes we get lost in a volta

 

But it all comes together in the Consecration

And again in the L’envoi

 

We are the poem

We don’t have to get it right

Or know all the words

We are loved and sung

All the way to the end

And if we’re sometimes inattentive

Well

That’s okay too

The liturgy is not a got’cha

 

The liturgy is a gift

 

 

¹ cf. Anais Vionet

² Teilhard de Chardin