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).
*** Narrative Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Luke 16:19-31
CLASSIC POEM:
Upon Lazarus His Teares.
Richard Crashaw
O happy Lazarus! richer in thy tears
Than he who midst his riches purple wears.
Hell’s purple flames red-glowing shall be his:
Ah, then how shall he count thy tears a bliss!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Still Falls the Rain
Edith Sitwell
SNIPPET:
…
Still falls the Rain
At the feet of the Starved Man hung upon the Cross,
Christ that each day, each night, nails there, have mercy on us –
On Dives and on Lazarus:
Under the Rain the sore and the gold are as one.
…
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