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St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Pray a hundred times a day.
Turn into a deer to escape your pursuers.
Be grieved that the friend you once trusted has broken the seal of confession.
Respect the seal of confession.
“There was a time when it was said that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland,” Klingenschmitt said, “and now I’m concerned that the snakes have returned to Ireland. And when I say snakes, I’m not talking about physical snakes, I’m talking about the demonic spirits inside of some of the people you see parading their sin in pride around the country, rejecting not just the Catholic Church but rejecting Jesus Christ himself.”
“Jesus Christ defined marriage between one man and one woman,” he continued, “and maybe it’s time for another St. Patrick to go back into Ireland and preach the good news that Jesus can make you free from sin and drive out the snakes once again.”
This is Gordon Klingenschmitt’s second appearance on #ThisManLegislates but I have faith that it won’t be his last!
Patroclus
Patroclus, look at your hands
and see them stained carmine.
The blood of the serpents
wets you to your elbows.
Set a torch to thatch.
Burn it all for the Prince
of Peace.
Centuries later
watch men in green
beating men in orange.
Dyeing a river green
(pissmarking)
for their flavor of Christ.
Your island weeps blood
because a strong man
never decorated an oak
with your bleeding intestines.
For that crime
the Irish have bled and
starved under Royal Scepter
and Holy See.
Patroclus,
your bloody hands forged
the crowns of gold and thorns
that (still) strangle your
countrymen.
– S. E. De Haven
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