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Backstory:

I wrote this song, inspired by the exhibit of Eucharistic Miracles, transposing the situation to our own time and our own State of Maine.                                           

Lyrics:

                                                  
C 2011  Servants of the Blessed Sacrament.
Words and Music by Sister Kay Kay, SSS

BALLAD OF CORPUS CHRISTI
VERSE 1  In the Church of Corpus Christi,
             Lost in the woods of Maine,
             He sauntered to the altar
             To run through the Rite again.
             He was nine years past first fervor,
             And his life of the looser kind,
             And he''d lately grown doubtful
             Concerning the bread and wine.
VERSE 2  In the Church of Corpus Christi
             As he began the Mass
             For the gathered congregation
             Who''d been there Sundays past,
             He felt the doubts come rising
             For perhaps the hundreth time:
             Does christ come truly present
             When all I see is bread and wine?
VERSE 3  In the Church of Corpus Christi
             Deep in the woods of Maine,
             He said the Consecration
             And expected it the same.
             But O the terror came on him:
             In his hands a heart of flesh,
             And blood dripped from the chalice
             To set his doubts at rest.
VERSE 4  In the Church of Corpus Christi
             Deep in the heart of Maine,
             The Priest fell faint adoring,
            And the people did the same.
            The Mass became their center
             From that revelation day,
             And the bloodstains on the altar
             Never washed away.