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This resource relating to Psalm 118 provides a poem by Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) highlighting themes of memory, loss, and the power of the past and a poem by Marie Howe exploring grief's impact.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
CLASSIC POEM:
The Corner Stone
Walter de la Mare
Sterile these stones
By time in ruin laid.
Yet many a creeping thing
Its haven has made
In these least crannies, where falls
Dark’s dew, and noonday shade.
The claw of the tender bird
Finds lodgment here;
Dye-winged butterflies poise;
Emmet and beetle steer
Their busy course; the bee
Drones, laden, near.
Their myriad-mirrored eyes
Great day reflect.
By their exquisite farings
Is this granite specked;
Is trodden to infinite dust;
By gnawing lichens decked.
Toward what eventual dream
Sleeps its cold on,
When into ultimate dark
These lives shall be gone,
And even of man not a shadow remain
Of all he has done?
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Gate
Marie Howe
SNIPPET:
I had no idea that the gate I would step through
to finally enter this world
would be the space my brother’s body made. He was
a little taller than me: a young man
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Key Scriptures:
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Liturgy of the Palms
Year C Liturgy of the Passion
Date:
Sunday, April 6, 2025