Veni Creator

*** Revised Common Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: Acts 2:1-21 CLASSIC POEM: As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame Gerard Manley Hopkins As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came. Í say móre: the just man justices; Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is— Chríst—for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men’s faces. *** This poem is in the public domain, and may be read in a live-streamed worship service. CONTEMPORARY POEM: Veni Creator Czeslaw Milosz SNIPPET: Come, Holy Spirit, bending or not bending the grasses, … [ READ THE FULL POEM ]