With the dawn of a new church year, we have launched a new feature on our website, a weekly post of poetry that resonates with the lectionary readings for that week (Revised Common Lectionary).
*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 148
CLASSIC POEM:
Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise Him.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Mass for the Day of
St. Thomas Didymus [excerpt]
Denise Levertov
SNIPPET:
Praise the wet snow
falling early.
Praise the shadow
my neighor’s chimney casts on the tile roof
even this gray October day that should, they say,
have been golden.
Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney’s shadow.
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I cannot see how to receive a weekly Lectionary Poem…. did I miss this? This is a marvelous item.
Thanks, Brian.
You can receive the weekly Lectionary Poems for the coming Sunday in your inbox by signing up for our “Daily” email list here:
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(It’s called daily because in the past it was sent daily, but now is generally sent 3x each week)
Best,
Chris Smith
ERB editor