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This resource relating to Psalm 107:1-22 provides a hymn and poem by Martin Rinkart (1586-1649) offering praise and thanks to God and a poem by Tracy K. Smith highlighting the concept of purposefully choosing joy.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22
CLASSIC POEM:
Now Thank We All our God
Martin Rinkart
(English Translation: Catherine Winkworth)
1 Now thank we all our God
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things has done,
in whom his world rejoices;
who from our mothers’ arms
has blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.
2 O may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
with ever joyful hearts
and blessed peace to cheer us,
to keep us in his grace,
and guide us when perplexed,
and free us from all ills
of this world in the next.
3 All praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given,
the Son and Spirit blest,
who reign in highest heaven
the one eternal God,
whom heaven and earth adore;
for thus it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Ode to Joy
Tracy K. Smith
O friend, my heart has tired
Of such darkness.
Now it vies for joy.
Joy, bright God-spark born of Ever
Daughter of fresh paradise—
Where you walked once now walk rancor,
Greed, suspicion, anger, fright.
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Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Fourth Sunday in Lent
Date:
Monday, March 4, 2024