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This resource relating to Jeremiah 31:27-34 provides a poem by John Donne (1572-1631) highlighting a desire for God's forgiveness and a poem by Malcolm Guite highlighting God's forgiveness.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Jeremiah 31:27-34
CLASSIC POEM:
A Hymn to God the Father
John Donne
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which was my sin, though it were done before?
Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run,
And do run still, though still I do deplore?
When thou hast done, thou hast not done,
For I have more.
Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won
Others to sin, and made my sin their door?
Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun
A year or two, but wallow’d in, a score?
When thou hast done, thou hast not done,
For I have more.
I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun
My last thread, I shall perish on the shore;
But swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son
Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore;
And, having done that, thou hast done;
I fear no more.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Father Forgive
Malcolm Guite
SNIPPET:
Father forgive, and so forgiveness flows;
Flows from the very wound our hatred makes,
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Jeremiah 31:27-34
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 24 (Ordinary Time 29)
Date:
Monday, October 10, 2022