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This resource relating to Jeremiah 28:5-9 provides poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) and Thomas Merton (1915-1968) highlighting a desire for lasting peace.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Jeremiah 28:5-9
CLASSIC POEM:
Peace
Gerard Manley Hopkins
When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?
When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu
Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,
That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Prayer for Peace
Thomas Merton
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Grant light, grant strength and patience to all who work for peace.
But grant us above all to see that our ways are not necessarily your ways,
that we cannot fully penetrate the mystery of your designs
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Year A Proper 8 (Ordinary Time 13)
Date:
Monday, June 26, 2023