<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368737" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scenes from a Parish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weekday Mass at 6 a.m.<br>brings old folks out <br>from bungalows <br>around the church.<br>They move like caterpillars <br>down sidewalks, <br>some with canes, <br>some on walkers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young Father Doyle says the Mass <br>and is renowned for giving <br>homilies on weekdays<br>superior to homilies<br>heard in other churches <br>even on a Sunday. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After Mass, he goes back <br>to the rectory to care <br>for a mother older than <br>most of his congregants.<br>A gracious lady, his mother <br>cannot move or talk <br>because of a stroke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But every Sunday at noon, <br>when the church is overflowing<br>with people wanting Mass to start, <br>Father Doyle, in full vestments, <br>wheels his mother in a lump<br>down the middle aisle<br>and lifts her like a chalice <br>and places her in the front pew <br>before he ascends to the altar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes at night, <br>when his mother is finally asleep, <br>he returns to the church <br>and rehearses in the dark <br>three hymns she long ago <br>asked him to sing at her funeral.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He practices the hymns <br>because the doctor said <br>she could go at any time<br>and when that time comes, <br>he doesn't want to miss a note.<br>The last thing she ever said was<br>'Son, I'll be listening.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donal+Mahoney">Donal Mahoney</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368737" data-title="Scenes from a Parish de Donal Mahoney" data-description="The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars down sidewalks, some with canes, some on walkers. Young Father Doyle says the Mass and is renowned for giving homilies on weekda..."></div> </div> </div>

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