follow

sound the gong

call the faithful

the abbot comes

leading the monks in prayer

retrace your steps

and follow

God calls

you are near

in the midst of town

walking toward the message

softly drifting to your ears

follow the red umbrella

approach the echoing gong

bow down in the temple 

and settle into song

*Thoughts of Gil Bailie:

-To be a Christian is to believe in mediation, and to believe that this mystery [the crucifixion] must come through bread and wine and music and incense and architecture and visual art.

-It seems to me that artists are the technicians of sacramental sensibility.  Their job is to transfigure the senses, to move us from idols to icons.