This is a guided tour through music and arts coming from various Christian worship traditions around the world, plus a few other things of related interest such as multicultural musics.
A Poem for Pentecost
All the Apostles looked at one another;
words curled in fire through the returning gloom.
Something had changed and colored all the room.
The beauty of the Galilean mother
took the breath from them for a little space.
Even a cup, a chair or a brown dress
could draw their tears with the great loveliness
that wrote tremendous secrets every place.
That was the day when Fire came down from heaven,
inaugurating the first spring of love.
Blood melted in the frozen veins, and even
the least bird sang in the mind’s inmost grove.
The seed sprang into flower, and over all
still do the multitudinous blossoms fall.
Jessica Powers in Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, 1937.
I am indebted to Fr. Philip Chircop who posted this poem and the art below on his great blog at
https://www.philipchircop.com/post/185458513222/the-first-pentecost-heres-a-poem-for-you-to
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Art: ‘Cor ad Cor Loquitur’ (Heart speaks unto Heart) by Sr Mary Stephen CRSS
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