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This resource relating to Genesis 17:1-16 provides poems by John Henry Newman (1801-1890) and Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) highlighting God's choice of Abraham as the father of nations.
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Gen. 17:1-7,15-16
CLASSIC POEM:
Abraham
John Henry Newman
The better portion didst thou choose, GreaTheart,
Thy God’s first choice, and pledge of Gentile grace!
Faith’s truest type, he with unruffled face
Bore the world’s smile, and bade her slaves depart;
Whether, a trader, with no trader’s art,
He buys in Canaan his last resting-place, —
Or freely yields rich Siddim’s ample space, —
Or braves the rescue, and the battle’s smart,
Yet scorns the heathen gifts of those he saved.
O happy in their soul’s high solitude,
Who commune thus with God, and not with earth!
Amid the scoffings of the wealth-enslaved,
A ready prey, as though in absent mood
They calmly move, nor reck the unmanner’d mirth.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Abraham: With Laughter
Madeleine L’Engle
Snippet:
Unlike the other gods
you are not satisfied with holocausts
and the sweet smell of smoke.
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Key Scriptures:
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Second Sunday in Lent
Date:
Monday, February 19, 2024