St Gregory the Great, 2020

Non angli sed angeli.
They are not Angles but Angels.
Si furent Christiani.
Did he mean if they were Christian would they be archangels?

Theirs was the sounds of silence.
Oppressed in that slave market.
But Gregory by his pun launched St Augustine into the wilderness.
To open to the world this island’s casket.

Panis Angelicus.
This angelic bread.
Bringing thus hope Catholicus.
Katholou, making us universal, many parts but one head.

And from those Northern mists.
Emerged new hope and gifts.