MASS APPEAL

Sometimes friends
who are far apart
or haven’t seen each other
in the longest time,
meet to eat.
They sit down together
breaking bread and words,
sipping wine and stories,
and they are once again
in communion with each other.

Prayer, the Mass,
the Word, Communion,
is somehow like this.
We gather together,
breaking bread and words,
sipping wine and stories,
and once again
we are made whole,
especially when our lives are broken
or when we feel all alone.

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2009