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                               A Row of Missals on the Chimneypiece

Those inexpensive missals, all in a row
Upon the chimneypiece of their little home
Each with its ribbons in orderly place
Like children in line for the Eucharist

I envied my friend for his family’s faith
The daily liturgies of a Catholic home
Rhythms and usages giving order to life -
They are all gone now, dead or dispersed

And in a garage sale some fifty years on
I found his missal, ribbons still in place