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:
Acts 19:1-7
CLASSIC POEM:
Holy Baptism
George Herbert
——Since, Lord, to Thee
—A narrow way and little gate
Is all the passage, on my infancy
—Thou didst lay hold, and antedate
——My faith in me.
——O, let me still
—Write Thee “great God,” and me “a child”;
Let me be soft and supple to Thy will,
—Small to myself, to others mild,
——Behither ill.
——Although by stealth
—My flesh get on; yet let her sister,
My soul, bid nothing, but preserve her wealth:
—The growth of flesh is but a blister;
——Childhood is health.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
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CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Baptism
Franz Wright
That insane asshole is dead
I drowned him
and he’s not coming back. Look
he has a new life
a new name
now
which no one knows except
the one who gave it.
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