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This resource relating to Hebrews 5:5-10 provides a poem by John Henry Newman (1801-1890) highlighting loneliness and longing for God's presence and a poem by Pádraig Ó Tuama highlighting how God is present in struggles.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Hebrews 5:5-10
CLASSIC POEM:
Melchizedek
John Henry Newman
Thrice bless’d are they, who feel their loneliness;
To whom nor voice of friends nor pleasant scene
Brings that on which the sadden’d heart can lean;
Yea, the rich earth, garb’d in her daintiest dress
Of light and joy, doth but the more oppress,
Claiming responsive smiles and rapture high;
Till, sick at heart, beyond the veil they fly,
Seeking His Presence, who alone can bless.
Such, in strange days, the weapons of Heaven’s grace;
When, passing o’er the high-born Hebrew line,
He forms the vessel of His vast design;
Fatherless, homeless, reft of age and place,
Sever’d from earth, and careless of its wreck,
Born through long woe His rare Melchizedek.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
God is the Fracture
Pádraig Ó Tuama
I used to need to know
the end of every story
but these days I only
need the start to get me going.
God is the crack
where the story begins
We are the crack
where the story gets interesting
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Year B Fifth Sunday in Lent
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Monday, March 11, 2024