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This resource relating to Mark 13:1-8 provides a poem by John Collings Squire highlighting Christ's surprising return and a poem by Andrew King highlighting the earth's groaning in anticipation of Christ's return.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Mark 13:1-8
CLASSIC POEM:
Wars And Rumours, 1920
John Collings Squire
Blood, hatred, appetite and apathy,
The sodden many and the struggling strong,
Who care not now though for another wrong
Another myriad innocents should die.
At candid savagery or oily lie
We laugh, or, turning, join the noisy throng
Which buries the dead with gluttony and song.
Suppose this very evening from on high
Broke on the world that unexampled flame
The choir-thronged sky, and Thou, descending, Lord;
What agony of horror, fear, and shame,
For those who knew and wearied of Thy word,
I dare not even think, who am confest
Idle, malignant, lustful as the rest.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
With Painful Groans
Andrew King
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God’s realm of love does not arrive full blown:
the Spirit labours long in human hearts.
The future comes to birth with painful groans.
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Year B Proper 28 (Ordinary Time 33)