Kingfishers, Dragonflies, and Stones

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; / As tumbled over rim in roundy wells / Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's / Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; / Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: / Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; / Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, / Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.// Í say móre: the just man justices/ [Gerard Manley Hopkins]

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Why Can’t a Woman Be A Priest?

Why Can't a Woman Be A Priest?

by Paul Kelly

I believe that someone in that great somewhere
Knows what is revealed to her loving mind
And takes the rest on faith for love of God
Who calls her to stand with women of her kind.


Her questions came from another land
Where Søren and others saw the awful gap
Between what christians say and think
And what they do without that pap.


Ah! we are all so human, brittle, soft,
Yearning for leaders to tell us what to say.
We kneel to bishops in all their colors.
And fail to see the Life, the Truth, the Way.


Men stand and speak to save what's good,
We see that hierarchs aren't worth the cost.
So let them sputter. Let them be, to history,
Where God will also let them be, as lost.


I believe that someone in that great somewhere
Knows what is revealed to her loving mind,
And takes the rest on faith for love of God
Who calls her to stand with women of her kind.


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