I go to mass online everyday
Especially to hear the sermon
The word of God now broke
Being a preacher was my aim in life
Still is and so I write
Where once I spoke
The Gospel is the key to every life
It opens up the mystery
Helps us understand
Teaches us and leads us
Challenges and commands
And daily mass is wonderful
To lead us through the land
I knew it from the outset
Jesus is the way
And as he said himself
The truth the life
So I will never leave him
Though sometimes I have strayed
I will follow on behind him
Even when delayed
I found it hard to go back in the pew
After all those years spent further up
But parish priest was never my ambition
Just preacher and a listener
That is my condition
I got marooned in celibacy awhile
Didn’t do me good
Not my style
I met a girl and finally understood
This is my life
This will do me good
But faith in the good Lord endured the while
My faith is strong
No virtue on my part
Was it my mother’s prayerfulness?
My father’s manly way
Whatever it was it rooted deep
And stays until this day
So daily mass online
Keeps me on song
Sit and let the word of God speak
It won’t take long
And hope for a good sermon
We need the living word
And on my knees I thank the Lord
For all that I have heard
Brian Fahy
4 March 2022
Erris Poetry 