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:
John 3:1-17
CLASSIC POEM:
Nicodemus
Richard Crashaw
JOHN III. 1–21.
’TWAS night; and, Teacher all untaught,
Thy darkness thou to Christ hast brought;
But while attent He speaks to thee
Benignant words, that thou mayst see,
Leading higher still and higher,
As thy yearnings do aspire,
Guiding thee, by sure grace given,
Through secret paths that reach to heaven
Lo! the Sun on thee is risen,
Bursting from his cloudy prison,
Showing Him the Life, the Way,
Flushing with first bloom of day,
Quivering with a golden light,
Such as on wav’ring seas gleams bright.
The Sun is risen; yet darkness lies,
Good Nicodemus on thine eyes,
But the night’s thine own; for, lo,
All heav’n above doth lustrous glow.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
Nicodemus Considers the Wind
Doing As it Pleases
Matthew Miller
SNIPPET:
Well, it’s always synergetic, lacing fingers with rain,
slicing clots from olive trees like a scalpel,
knotted leaves scraped away. Sometimes it just eases
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