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This resource relating to Mark 12:38-44 provides a poem by Frederick Locker-Lampson highlighting the loss of a widow's only child and a poem by Marilyn Nelson requesting funds to buy the freedom of James Hamlet.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Mark 12:38-44
CLASSIC POEM:
The Widow’s Mite
Frederick Locker-Lampsom
A widow–she had only one!
A puny and decrepit son;
But, day and night,
Though fretful oft, and weak and small,
A loving child, he was her all–
The Widow’s Mite.
The Widow’s Mite–ay, so sustained,
She battled onward, nor complained,
Though friends were fewer:
And while she toiled for daily fare,
A little crutch upon the stair
Was music to her.
I saw her then,–and now I see
That, though resigned and cheerful, she
Has sorrowed much:
She has, He gave it tenderly,
Much faith; and carefully laid by,
The little crutch.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Miracle in the
Collection Plate
Marilyn Nelson
SNIPPET:
Brothers and sisters, we know why we’re here
this evening. The sad news has traveled fast
of Brother James’s capture. For three years
he lived amongst us, tasting happiness.
His wife and child are here with us tonight.
God bless you, Sister. Without a goodbye,
James was handcuffed, and shoved on a steamboat
to Baltimore, to be sold—legally!
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Mark 12:38-44
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Proper 27 (Ordinary Time 32)