O Little Town of Bethlehem Archived Message
Posted by Mary on December 24, 2019, 6:41 pm, in reply to "Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa gets top billing in this Heil report"
This came in an e-mail today. ' O Little Town of Bethlehem, I hear your people call, With soldiers tramping on your streets, And trapped behind a wall, No choirs of Christmas Angels, No great glad tidings tell, While a nation fights for human rights, In a land of living hell. Not silently, not silently, Your calls for peace are made, But the whole world ignores your pleas, For justice and for aid, The conquerors impose their will, With the bullet and the gun. They will take your land away, They think God’s will be done. The Holy stars together, Proclaim your disparate plight, God weeps as he looks down upon, The cruel oppressors might. They crush your hope of freedom, Of joy and love and peace. We need to hear your story, The truth must never cease.'
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