When Christ explained the Eucharist
Many followers fled.
The Truth was unacceptable
“Too hard! Too hard!” they said.
Our Bishops are of subtler stuff
They nuance things instead.
We once believed - I still believe -
That bread becomes our God
That wine becomes the Blood He shed
Is this so very odd?
Aquinas gave us words to clothe
Belief, but now we nod
Assent at clerics who recoil
From such crude credal vigour
And think they’d better water down
Aquinas’s divisive rigour
“Our Lord is present in a very
Special way,” they figure.
From fudge and nuance and half lies
And German exegesis
They sound-byte forth a statement that
Has as its central thesis
Whatever is acceptable
Whatever your belief is.
Like slippery salesmen they predict
The punter’s predilection.
Street cred is what it’s all about
Not Nicene Creed conviction.
“Our faiths are custom-made," they smirk
"Just choose from our selection.
"Don’t like Hell? Don’t fret, dear sir,
It’s a discontinued line.
No Purgatory? a wise choice,
Heaven ok? That’s fine!
And now, how would you like to pay,
Up front or down the line?"
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3 comments:
"present in a very special way"
Exactly: meaningless but feelgood! it evokes a memory of a secular parallel
Over ten years ago at a St Thomas Aquinas , as patron saint of learning, (good wine and enough of it and decent nibbles, standing up , but the price was the speeches of clochemerlebabylon's great and good ) wine and nosh for teachers, most of the younger ones a nd not a few of the elder being trendy lefties croyants and half practicants, the local ed. directrix a decaf similar, spoke of a recently dead, not the word she used, saintly example of teacherhood in a colleague I doubted Id ever met, at least regarding the description of her secular sanctity - when we were regaled with a sanctimoneous description of how the missed one was watching us from another dimension, the wine was too good to puke, otherwise I would have.
Just as you write, it's in the church too. Oh well , noone is irrecuparable unless they so fully desire.
Thanks, Mike for your comment. Sorry to be so late with reply, but have had a lot of work.
I guess your reactions to the instant canonisation were identical to mine on a similar occasion. God bless!
God bless.
The NZ Lord of the rings is flawed, very, albeit with some excellently faithful scenes: the gates of mordor certainly come overas if they might prevail, which as a boy always seemed odd , how on earth can a gate prevail?
Well gates of hell won't, always and everywhere.
In a particular place at and for a particular time...............another matter, sadly.
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