Like Larkin
I do a spot of ‘church going’ these days
Not actual you understand
But via Internet
I visit many places
Sermon hunting too
To see the health of Christendom
In Twenty twenty-two
Little churches I love best
Cosy congregations
Better than those barns they built
For Sunday obligations
Leaven in the dough we are
To help this world along
The church the Lord’s own sitting room
For silence prayer and song
The Lord is present in this place
In sacrament and word
We need the warmth of ritual
The Gospel to be heard
A gathered people unified
Around the altar there
A sacrament and sacrifice
Forever to be shared
Brian Fahy
6 October 2022
+ St Osmund’s, Salisbury is one such church.
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