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This resource relating to James 3, 4 provides a poem by Ben Jonson (1572-1637) highlighting gluttony, greed, and lust and a poem by Yusef Komunyakaa depicting lust.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
James 3:13 – 4:3, 7-8a
CLASSIC POEM:
On Gut
Ben Jonson
Gut eats all day and lechers all the night;
So all his meat he tasteth over twice;
And, striving so to double his delight,
He makes himself a thoroughfare of vice.
Thus in his belly can he change a sin:
Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Lust
Yusef Komunyakaa
SNIPPET:
If only he could touch her,
Her name like an old wish
In the stopped weather of salt
On a snail. He longs to be
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Key Scriptures:
James 3:7-8, 13-18, 4:1-3
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Proper 20 (Ordinary Time 25)