Rome 'n Home

Almost a million pilgrims flocked to Rome,
a city full of faith and much new paint,
I, like a billion Catholics, stayed at home,
and chatted with a canonized new saint.

Popes John Paul Two and John the Twenty-Third,
so worthily praised and prayed to over there,
with throngs, high Masses, liturgy and Word,
we folks praised here with common Mass and prayer.

By TV, Internet we joined their praying,
we didn’t miss the hoopla that we missed,
Great God came here to us where we were staying,
we ate His Body in the Eucharist.

Bless those, O Lord, who swelled Your flock in Rome,
as now beatified, they straggle home.

                                    by Pete Voelz     5/2/14