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CARLO Saturday, 30. September 2006, 10:03
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 THE DEACON



“Is your image one of wearing beautiful vestments and reading the Gospel or is it of attending a dying person late at night in a smelly and dingy room? I have to tell you it is the second that is more real”. (Advice given to those contemplating the Diaconate).



No incense burns
To hide the smell
Of death’s approach

No flowers bloom
By bedsides, where
Life lingers still

No choir’s chant
Or Sanctus bell
No Latin hymns
Or organ swell

For you are called
From the warmth of
Congregation
To these cold corners
Of creation

To exercise
Your vocation
And whisper words
Of salvation.


Copyright 'CARLO' 2005
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