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This resource relating to 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 provides a poem by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) expressing a longing for simple faith and a poem by Tania Runyan highlighting the folly of searching for treasures in the garbage.
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: I Corinthians 1: 18 – 31
CLASSIC POEM:
Folly
Joyce Killmer
What distant mountains thrill and glow
Beneath our Lady Folly’s tread?
Why has she left us, wise in woe,
Shrewd, practical, uncomforted?
We cannot love or dream or sing,
We are too cynical to pray,
There is no joy in anything
Since Lady Folly went away.
Many a knight and gentle maid,
Whose glory shines from years gone by,
Through ignorance was unafraid
And as a fool knew how to die.
Saint Folly rode beside Jehanne
And broke the ranks of Hell with her,
And Folly’s smile shone brightly on
Christ’s plaything, Brother Juniper.
Our minds are troubled and defiled
By study in a weary school.
O for the folly of the child!
The ready courage of the fool!
Lord, crush our knowledge utterly
And make us humble, simple men;
And cleansed of wisdom, let us see
Our Lady Folly’s face again.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
God’s Folly
Tania Runyan
SNIPPET:
A dozen children pose on a hill of garbage in Indonesia,
gap-toothed little girls in sundresses linking arms in the front,
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1 Corinthians 1:18-31
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
Date:
Monday, January 23, 2023