Here's another excellent essay by Gay Catholic Michael J. Bayley:
The Catholic High Mass - Beautiful and Inherently Gay?
http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/11/catholic-high-mass-beautiful-and.html
--quote:
I've often wondered how many straight Catholics fully appreciate how
gay their church has always been. Especially in the old days. High
Mass was, in its heyday, more elaborate and choreographed than a very
melodramatic Broadway musical. Do people really believe that gay
priests and religious had nothing to do with it? They had everything
to do with it.
--end quote
Please, read the rest, you'll like it!
With this essay in mind, allow me to present my own poem, reflecting
memories of my early childhood, raised as a Catholic myself:
ODE TO A BOWL OF JELLO
(to my father's mother felicia)
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(c) 2000 by Ezekiel J. Krahlin
Spumoni filtered sun beams
Scatter dancing jujubes
Across the polished oaken pews
Of a Roman Catholic church...
O stain glass bless-ed paradise
Of multi-color hues,
Kaleidoscopy ****fting light,
Drifting and uplifting bright!
Mansions boundless I do spy
Through Jehovah's Iris Eye,
And yonder windows peek a boo
Grace me with a pretty view!
O multi-facet spectral gleam,
Rainbow prism crystal beam!
Amethyst purple and
Tetra fish blue,
Tree frog green,
Daffodil yellow,
Cat's eye amber and
Tanager red
All shot through
With bullets of lead:
Pewter lightning striking
SHATTER
...frozen in time,
a still life scene.
(On jello sublime
I do dine;
Lay down my tines:
The plate is clean.)
--
Zeke Krahlin
http://www.gay-bible.org
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