At a Potato Digging

Submitted by hvandervelde on Tue, 04/08/2025 - 07:56
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This resource relating to Amos 8:1-12 provides a poem by Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) uses the digging of a potato crop to symbolize suffering.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: Amos 8: 1-12 CONTEMPORARY POEM: At a Potato Digging Seamus Heaney SNIPPET: A mechanical digger wrecks the drill, Spins up a dark shower of roots and mould. Labourers swarm in behind, stoop to fill Wicker creels. Fingers go dead in the cold. … [ READ THE FULL POEM ]
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Seamus Heaney
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Suffering
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Poetry
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Amos 8:1-12
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Year C Proper 11 (Ordinary Time 16)
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Monday, July 11, 2022