Eleison Comments

The whole world needs the Consecration of Russia,
‘Twill into an age of peace and piety, usher.

To serve God never can we be too poor –
His help is always “closer than the door.”

‘Twixt Mammon and God, said Jesus, we must choose.
Bankers choose Mammon. God they have to lose.

Poor planners of a “great” and godless world –
Into the depths of Hell they will be hurled!

Lord God, please give us properly to understand,

Covid comes through men, but from Your own Hand!

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away.”

(William Wordsworth, “On the extinction of the Venetian Republic”)