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This resource relating to 1 Peter 1:17-23 provides a poem by George Herbert (1593-1633) highlighting the significance of sin and God's love and a poem by Penelope Duckworth highlighting Jesus' incarnation.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: 1 Peter 1:17-23
CLASSIC POEM:
The Agony
George Herbert
Philosophers have measured mountains,
Fathomed the depths of seas, of states and kings;
Walked with a staff to heav’n, and traced fountains:
But there are two vast, spacious things,
The which to measure it doth more behove;
Yet few there are that sound them—Sin and Love.
Who would know Sin, let him repair
Unto Mount Olivet; there shall he see
A Man so wrung with pains, that all His hair,
His skin, His garments bloody be.
Sin is that press and vice, which forceth pain
To hunt his cruel food through ev’ry vein.
Who knows not Love, let him assay
And taste that juice which, on the cross, a pike
Did set again abroach; then let him say
If ever he did taste the like,
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Blood
Penelope Duckworth
SNIPPET:
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Christ’s heart took shape in Mary’s body.
His blood first coursed her valves and veins.
It was made with her womb’s weaving,
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1 Peter 1:17-23
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Year A Third Sunday of Easter
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Monday, April 17, 2023