The Holy Hand Grenade Strikes Yet Again!

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Liccione of Sacramentum Vitae is the latest victim , er, recipient of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, in honor of his efforts, in his weblog and in the weblog of his predecessor and protomember of the Order, Father Al Kimel, to lead discussion between Orthodox and Roman Catholics in an orderly and respectful manner.

Therefore, let the Rite of Investiture be said, let the Orb be given (at his own expense, of course), and let Dr. Liccione be inducted into the honorable Order of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Villanelle

Sheep scatter when they are not being fed.
We see this in the fields, and at the Mass.
Those who deny this know a lie is said.

Although most folk in vestments black and red
Do not believe that this has come to pass,
Sheep scatter when they are not being fed.

“It is because the Faith we held is dead,
that people now forsake the Church, alas.”
Those who proclaim this know a lie is said.

Bare ruined kirks where once sweet choirs led
In prayer and song, long gone, have caused this pass:
Sheep scatter when they are not being fed;

Shrewd parsons, who believed the faith they pled,
Replaced by yes-men to a mitered ass:
Those who deny faith know a lie is said.

Lord Christ, how long now will it yet be said
About Thy flock, and of the Holy Mass:
“Sheep scatter when they are not being fed:
Those who deny this know a lie is said”?

-Bernard Brandt