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This resource relating to 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 provides a poem by John Donne (1572-1631) highlighting themes of doubt and rescue and a poem by Carrie Purcell Kahler highlighting themes of invitation and hospitality.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: 2 Corinthians 13:11-13
CLASSIC POEM:
Batter My Heart,
Three Person’d God
John Donne
Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp’d town to another due,
Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv’d, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov’d fain,
But am betroth’d unto your enemy;
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
After Rublev’s Trinity
Carrie Purcell Kahler
SNIPPET:
Each face turned toward
a face at table leaving
always a space for
one more. An open
door to run through when someone
can’t quite make it home
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2 Corinthians 13:11-13
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Year A Trinity Sunday
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023