14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2020

First Public Mass after Lockdown

Come to me all you who labour and are overburdened.
For I am gentle and humble of heart.
My first public mass in three months locked in and abandoned.
The sermon is on the rules on social distancing, a tedious chart.

Shoulder my yoke.
And you will find rest.
What we yearn for is a spiritual soak.
Not Government guidelines burying the zest.

So I return to scripture.
Plain unadorned.
Always the victor.
Even if scorned.

Let me receive like a child.
For indeed your yoke is mild.