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This resource relating to Psalm 133 provides a poem by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) highlighting an acceptance of loss and reconciliation and a poem by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) highlighting themes of unity and isolation.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 133
CLASSIC POEM:
Reconciliation
Walt Whitman
WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in
time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly
softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world:
…For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead;
I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin—I
draw near;
I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face
in the coffin.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Unity
Pablo Neruda
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There is something dense, united, settled in the depths,
repeating its number, its identical sign.
How it is noted that stones have touched time,
in their refined matter there is an odor of age,
of water brought by the sea, from salt and sleep.
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Psalm 133
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Second Sunday of Easter
Date:
Monday, April 1, 2024