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country. Hagan i the ninth - and last - member of the Bolger family
to have completed his education in Gonzaga! We salute the Bolgers.







CITY STREET


In the Street of the Blessed Sacrament
Little knots of people stand about
Waiting for their buses
Some lost in their morning trance of far-away
The man who has no home
Begs from the people in the queue.
The school-girls twitter;
A car is being broken into by a gang of youths.


On the other side of a door
in the Street of the Blessed Sacrament
Men and women kneel in worship
Where a consecrated person
Observes holy convention
And offers them the slight morsel of bread
Under which guise the Lord of all the world
Wishes to be approached.

Candle-light flickers - prayers
of the heart are uttered
And the Person in form of bread
becomes totally present
To those who stopped and entered
by the narrow door.


Out on the street
The people crane and stare
Looking for their buses
Unaware
that the transcendant
awaits them too
On the other side of the door
Over there
Just over there.

Bernadette Dunne






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