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So hi everyone

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Today there's something I would like to share with you and it's a poem. It's called Lockdown by Brother Richard

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Yes, there is fear

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Yes, there is isolation

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Yes, there's panic buying

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Yes, there's sickness

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Yes, there's even death

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but

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They say that in Wuhan, after so many years of noise, you can hear the birds again.

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They say that after just a few weeks of quiet, the sky is no longer thick with fumes, but blue and grey and clear.

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They say that in the streets of Assisi, people are singing to each other across the empty squares,

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keeping the windows open so that those who are alone may hear the sounds of family around them.

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They say that a hotel in the west of Ireland is offering free meals and delivery to the

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housebound. Today a young woman I know is busy spreading flyers with her number through the

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neighborhood so that the elders may have someone to call on. Today churches, synagogues, mosques

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and temples are preparing to welcome and shelter the homeless, the sick, the weary.

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All over the world, people are slowing down and reflecting. All over the world, people

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are looking at the neighbours in a new way. All over the world, people are waking up to

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a new reality, to how big we really are, to how little control we really have, to what

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really matters to love so we pray and we remember that yes there is fear but it doesn't have to be

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hate yes there is isolation but it doesn't have to be loneliness yes there's panic buying but it

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doesn't have to be meanness yes there's sickness but it doesn't have to be disease of the soul

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Yes, there's even death

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But there can always be a rebirth of love

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Wake to the choices you make

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As to how to live now

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Today, breathe

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Listen

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Behind the factory noises of your panic

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The birds are singing again

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The sky is clearing

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Spring's coming

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And we're always encompassed by love

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Open the windows of your soul

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And though you may not be able to touch across the empty square

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Sing