THE WORD CARCER IN LATIN
MEANS PRISON
TO INCARCERATE
MEANS
TO SEND TO PRISON
THE EARLY CHURCH
KNEW WELL
WHAT CARCER MEANT
EARLY ON THE PRISONS
COULD NOT KEEP THEM
CHAINS FELL OFF
DOORS WERE OPENED
THEY WALKED FREE
BUT LATER
CARCER MEANT
A DOORWAY
TO HEAVEN
IN FACT IT WAS A FATE
THAT MANY SOUGHT
TODAY
WE HAVE MANY
WHO WILL DIE FOR A CAUSE
WE SCOFF
FORGETTING
THAT THE CHURCH
IN ALL ITS FORMS
HAS MANY MARTYRS
SO WHERE
DOES IT END
HOW DO WE JUDGE
WHEN IT’S RIGHT
WHEN IT’S WRONG
TO PARAPHRASE PAUL
IF WHAT YOU DO
HAS NOT LOVE
THEN THE ACT
IS A CLANGING BELL
THAT IS OUT OF TUNE
BELIEFS
WHICH SHOULD
BETTER MAN
BELITTLE HIM
BETTER A WASTELAND
THEY THINK
THAN LET ANOTHER
SURVIVE
THE CHURCH
HAS A POOR TRACK RECORD
OF LETTING THE OTHER SURVIVE
IF WHAT WE DO
HASN’T GOT LOVE
MANY THINK
IT’S NAMBY-PAMBY
BUT TO LOVE ANOTHER
AT COST TO ONESELF
IS LIKE PETER
MEETING CHRIST ON THE ROAD
ASKING
QUO VADIS DOMINE
THE ANSWER
LED PETER
BACK TO ROME
TO DIE
FRANK A VOLLMER
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