Here is what the poet P. Claudel read into the priest’s imploring look as he turned to the people and recited the words Dominus vobiscum (The Lord be with you):
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The Lord is with you, my brothers! My brothers,
did you hear me?
My little flock, it is not only the paten, it is not only
the chalice with the wine,
it is you—the whole of you—that I would like to hold
and raise in my hands...
See, the collection plate is coming round. Have you nothing else to give,
except that miserable farthing?
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