Destroy this sanctuary .

And in three days I will raise it up.
We came to praise not bury.

In celebration we can drink a cup.

We were at a requiem mass of Malta.
For deceased members of our Order.
Not to mourn but celebrate lives well spent at the altar.
Some long , others too short , they enter safe harbour.

There are only two feasts every year.
When we celebrate something not someone.
For this Basilica shed no tear.
It speaks for all and the supreme one.

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The temple water
Is pure teeming with all life
And never ending

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See John 2: 13-22