Poetry

Lectionary Poetry – Second Sunday After Pentecost (Year C)


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:
Isaiah 65:1-9

 
 

CLASSIC POEM:

God’s Anger
Robert Herrick

God can’t be wrathful: but we may conclude
Wrathful He may be by similitude:
God’s wrathful said to be, when He doth do
That without wrath which wrath doth force us to.

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

CONTEMPORARY POEM:

Ways of Rebelling
Nathalie Handal

SNIPPET:

Who needs to be at peace in the world? It helps to be between wars, to die
a few times each day…

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