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:
Jeremiah 31:27-34
CLASSIC POEM:
The New Covenant (Hymn)
Charles Wesley
1
O God most merciful and true,
Thy nature to my soul impart;
’Stablish with me the cov’nant new,
And write perfection on my heart.
2
To real holiness restored,
O let me gain my Saviour’s mind;
And in the knowledge of my Lord
Fulness of life eternal find.
3
Remember, Lord, my sins no more,
That them I may no more forget;
But, sunk in guiltless shame, adore
With speechless wonder at thy feet.
4
O’erwhelmed with thy stupendous grace,
I shall not in thy presence move;
But breathe unutterable praise,
And rapturous awe, and silent love.
5
Then every murmuring thought and vain
Expires in sweet confusion lost:
I cannot of my cross complain,
I cannot of my goodness boast.
6
Pardon’d for all that I have done,
My mouth as in the dust I hide,
And glory give to God alone,
My God forever pacified!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Father Forgive
Malcolm Guite
SNIPPET:
Father forgive, and so forgiveness flows;
Flows from the very wound our hatred makes,
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