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This resource relating to 2 Samuel 6:1-19 and Psalm 24 provides poems by George Herbert (1593-1633) and Gerald Stern (1925-2022) highlighting the praising of God through the suffering.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 and Psalm 24
CLASSIC POEM:
Praise (II)
George Herbert
Praise. (II)
King of Glorie, King of Peace,
I will love thee:
And that love may never cease,
I will move thee.
Thou hast granted my request,
Thou hast heard me:
Thou didst note my working breast,
Thou hast spar’d me.
Wherefore with my utmost art
I will sing thee,
And the cream of all my heart
I will bring thee.
Though my sinnes against me cried,
Thou didst cleare me;
And alone, when they replied,
Thou didst heare me.
Sev’n whole dayes, not one in seven,
I will praise thee.
In my heart, though not in heaven,
I can raise thee.
Thou grew’st soft and moist with tears,
Thou relentedst:
And when Justice call’d for fears,
Thou disentedst.
Small it is, in this poore sort
To enroll thee:
Ev’n eternitie is to short
To extoll thee.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Dancing
Gerald Stern
SNIPPET:
In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero” the way I did
in 1945 in that tiny living room
on Beechwood Boulevard…
…
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Key Scriptures:
2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12-19; Psalm 24
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Proper 10 (Ordinary Time 15)
Date:
Monday, July 8, 2024