Notre Dame

Twin towers remain standing.
Symbol of the Faith:
more resilient than the powers of wealth
which dare appropriate it
and smother in worldly power.

Secularist fire starters?
Just a rumour. But perhaps.
Expect, then, no outcry,
no call to arms
to avenge these twin towers.

No call to arms –
thank God for that.
Sounds ironic? Well,
not if you know Jesus.

Locus of prayer,
divine communion,
beauty, love:

despoiled,
broken,
mocked.

A Holy Week sermon in fire.

Yet Jesus lives.

15th April 2019, (c) Nick Morgan