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This resource relating to Isaiah 1:10-18 provides a poem by Alice Meynell (1847-1922) highlighting the joy over a sinner's repentance and a poem by Anne Carson highlighting Isaiah's fear of the Lord.
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Isaiah 1:10-18
CLASSIC POEM:
Beyond Knowledge
Alice Meynell
“Your sins . . . shall be white as snow.”
Into the rescued world newcomer,
The newly-dead stepped up, and cried,
“O what is that, sweeter than summer
Was to my heart before I died?
Sir (to an angel), what is yonder
More bright than the remembered skies,
A lovelier sight, a softer splendour
Than when the moon was wont to rise?
Surely no sinner wears such seeming
Even the Rescued World within?”
“O the success of His redeeming!
O child, it is a rescued sin!”
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Book of Isaiah, Part I
Anne Carson
SNIPPET:
Isaiah awoke angry.
Lapping at Isaiah’s ears black birdsong no it was anger.
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Key Scriptures:
Isaiah 1:10-18
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 26 (Ordinary Time 31)
Date:
Monday, October 24, 2022