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This resource relating to Luke 5:1-11 provides a poem by W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) highlighting a fish's futile attempts at escaping capture and a poem by A. E. Stallings highlighting the struggle between life and death.
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*** Narrative Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Luke 5:1-11
CLASSIC POEM:
The Fish
W.B. Yeats
Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Fishing
A.E. Stallings
SNIPPET:
The two of them stood in the middle water,
The current slipping away, quick and cold,
The sun slow at his zenith, sweating gold,
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Luke 5:1-11
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Narrative lectionary week:
NL323 Fish for People
Date:
Wednesday, January 22, 2025