Chris McDonnell (UK)

Reflection on the savage murder of 85 year old Fr Jacques Hamel
in Normandy on July 26

Mid-week Eucharist

                  Father Jacques Hamel

A single bell

calls

from the small

church tower,

a lost echo

of a Tuesday morning

                       terror

where sacrifice

stained the stone

of a sanctuary floor,

a shared Eucharist,

sunlit,

through an open door.

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