St Patrick's Church Belfast
St Mary's Church, Chapel Lane Belfast
God's servants: Frank Duff, Alfie Lambe, and Venerable Edel Quinn
A woman lost to the world in prayer in St Mary's
Beds Of Hay
The weight of a little one
Would scarcely dent such a bed
Yet the homeless, the dispossessed
Have nowhere to lay their heads
But beds of hay.
We know of a time
When God himself came small
And lay new-born in a stall.
Today
Near and far
The destitute ghosts walk -
Their eyes like lamps that
Probe the souls
Of us who turn away.
'Can’t you see us
On these beds of hay?'
'Can’t you see him?'
They say.
