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     Parish Consolidations and Rumors of Parish Consolidations

                 “I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more.
                                We don't change. We hold on.
                              I say great good will come of it.”

                    -Trufflehunter in C. S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian

I don’t suppose Saint Peter sent surveys
Or that Saint Paul politely polled the people
But that’s how bishops do such things these days
With an access code on the InterThing

502 Bad Gateway

Rumor Control and Gossip Central say
That our parish is for the chopping block
     (maybe re-purposed as a shopping block)
Worse things have happened; we’ve been pilgrims before
So as the Lord leads us, we will follow Him

Again

The Altar, Sacrifice, and Word are Truth
And where we are sent to serve, there we will serve