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This resource relating to Genesis 45:1-15 and Psalm 133 provides a poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) highlighting a desire to connect with the past and a poem by Christopher Soto highlighting the desire to extend forgiveness.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Genesis 45:1-15 and Psalm 133
CLASSIC POEM:
Echo
Christina Rossetti
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.
Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again tho’ cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Forgiveness
Christopher Soto
SNIPPET:
…
I think it’s time
For us to abandon
Our cruelties
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Genesis 45:1-15; Psalm 133
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Proper 15 (Ordinary Time 20)
Date:
Tuesday, August 15, 2023