Courage you have borne witness to me In Jerusalem.
Now you must do the same in Rome.
As I heard these words in Mass , joy came as a gem.
I felt I had come home.A plague killed all the monks.
Leaving only the Abbot and St Bede.
They still prospered and emerged from the dumps.
An object lesson, however few, have faith in the creed.

His tomb, Hac sunt in fossa Bedae Venerabilis ossa.
His prayer , when Rome falls the whole world will fall.
His words flowing from the spiritual volcano like lava.
For the first time English prose could walk tall.

So even if a monastery is reduced to two.
That is not too few.

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Remember Bede’s words.
If Rome falls the world will fall
Something to conjure

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See Acts 22: 30 , 23 : 6-11