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This resource relating to Romans 13:8-14 provides poems by Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) and Malcolm Guite highlighting the theme of loving others.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Romans 13:8-14
CLASSIC POEM:
Love One Another
Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup, but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread, but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together.
For the pillars of the temple stand apart.
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Your Neighbor as Yourself
Malcolm Guite
SNIPPET:
My neighbour as myself? I cannot learn
To love myself at all. I look away,
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Proper 18 (Ordinary Time 23)
Date:
Tuesday, September 5, 2023