Angelus Bell

Thrice daily a church bell

bids us to recall and tell

that tale of Light and Hope

ent’ring and wid’ning the scope

of life, lest we might forget

on rising to pay to God our debt,

or amid our toil at noontide

to let work set God aside,

or when our day its course has run

we turn our steps to rest with the sun.

Yet clearly that bell resounds in time

a message our hearts mustn’t decline,

but like the Virgin Mary give assent

in grateful praise for Life that’s given not lent.

( © MG-P)

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 Image above poem: Annunciation (1393) by Ilario of Viterbo,

           Porziuncola Chapel, Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, Assisi.