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:
Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16
CLASSIC POEM:
Hope
Harriet Monroe
What wilt thou do when faith is fled
And hope is dead
And love’s wing broken?
Wilt thou lie in the grave of the past and sleep,
While the mourners weep
And sad rites are spoken?
Nay, nay—fare forth, though the night be black
And the storm’s red rack
In the sky is burning;
For the sun shines somewhere, from gloom released,
And the heart of the east
For the day is yearning.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Qui habitat
Malcolm Guite
SNIPPET:
He shares our grief and wipes away our tears
And even in this life he shelters us
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