A Wideness in God's Mercy

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This resource relating to Exodus 32:7-14 and Psalm 51:1-10 provides a poem and hymn by Frederick W. Faber (1814-1863) highlighting God's mercy and love and a poem by Malcolm Guite highlighting God's judgment and mercy.
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: Exodus 32:7-14 and Psalm 51:1-10 CLASSIC POEM: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy Frederick Faber There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea. There’s a kindness in God’s justice, which is more than liberty. There is welcome for the sinner, and more graces for the good. There is mercy with the Savior, there is healing in his blood. But we make God’s love too narrow by false limits of our own, and we magnify its strictness with a zeal God will not own. *** This poem is in the public domain, and may be read in a live-streamed worship service. CONTEMPORARY POEM: Judica me, Domine Malcolm Guite SNIPPET: That I may find my peace in all he wills I call on him in faith, to judge for me, … [ READ THE FULL POEM ]
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Frederick W. Faber
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Malcolm Guite
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Exodus 32:7-14; Psalm 51:1-10
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Year C Proper 19 (Ordinary Time 24)
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Tuesday, September 6, 2022