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This resource relating to Matthew 4:12-23 provides a poem by John Donne (1572-1631) highlighting judgment day and a poem by A. E. Stallings where the act of fishing highlights the struggle between life and death.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Matthew 4:12-23
CLASSIC POEM:
Holy Sonnets:
At the round earth’s imagin’d corners, blow
John Donne
At the round earth’s imagin’d corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
All whom the flood did, and fire shall, o’erthrow,
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes,
Shall behold God, and never taste death’s woe.
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space;
For, if above all these, my sins abound,
‘Tis late to ask abundance of thy grace,
When we are there. Here on this lowly ground,
Teach me how to repent; for that’s as good
As if thou’hadst seal’d my pardon with thy blood.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Fishing
A.E. Stallings
SNIPPET:
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The current slipping away, quick and cold,
The sun slow at his zenith, sweating gold,
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Key Scriptures:
Matthew 4:12-23
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Date:
Tuesday, January 17, 2023