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This resource relating to Luke 22:19-20 provides a poem by Countee Cullen highlighting the bread and wine and a poem by Lynn Ungar highlighting the bread as life-giving.
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*** Narrative Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Luke 22:19-20
CLASSIC POEM:
Bread and Wine
Countee Cullen
From death of star to new star’s birth,
This ache of limb, this throb of head,
This sweaty shop, this smell of earth,
For this we pray, “Give daily bread.”
Then tenuous with dreams the night,
The feel of soft brown hands in mine,
Strength from your lips for one more fight
Bread’s not so dry when dipped in wine.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Blessing the Bread
Lynn Ungar
SNIPPET:
Surely the earth
is heavy with this rhythm,
the stretch and pull of bread,
the folding in and folding in
across the palms, as if
the lines of my hands could chart
a map across the dough,
…
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Luke 22:19-20
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NL312 God Promises a New Covenant