Poetry

Lectionary Poetry – 3rd Sunday in Lent (Year A)

Lectionary Poetry Lent Week 1

Each week we carefully curate a collection of  poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).


*** Revised Common Lectionary ***

Lectionary Reading: Psalm 95

 

CLASSIC POEM:

Thanksgiving
Paul Laurence Dunbar

The sun hath shed its kindly light,
Our harvesting is gladly o’er
Our fields have felt no killing blight,
Our bins are filled with goodly store.

*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.


 
CONTEMPORARY POEM:

Venite, Exultemus
Malcolm Guite

SNIPPET:

For equal rights and justice, cry out loud!
Then come before God’s presence and be glad,
And harden not your hearts. Do not be proud,

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