Poetry

Lectionary Poetry – 24th Sunday After Pentecost ( Year B )


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:
Deuteronomy 6:1-9

CLASSIC POEM:

Love God with all your soul and strength
Isaac Watts

Love God with all your soul and strength.
With all your heart and mind;
And love your neighbor as yourself:
Be faithful, just, and kind.

Deal with another as you’d have
Another deal with you:
What you’re unwilling to receive,
Be sure you never do.

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

CONTEMPORARY POEM:

Shema
Primo Levi
SNIPPET:
You who live secure
In your warm houses
Who return at evening to find
Hot food and friendly faces:

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