Poetry
Mary’s Song
…by Luci Shaw Blue homespun and the bend of my breast keep warm this small hot naked star fallen to my arms. (Rest… you who have had so far to come.) Now nearness satisfies the body of God sweetly. Quiet he lies whose vigor hurled a universe. He sleeps whose eyelids have not closed before. […]
Loved with Everlasting Love
Loved with everlasting love, led by grace that love to know; Gracious Spirit from above, Thou hast taught me it is so! O this full and perfect peace! O this transport all divine! In a love which cannot cease, I am His, and He is mine. In a love which cannot cease, I am His, […]
The Dipper
Once I saw in a quick-falling, white-veined stream, among the leafed islands of the wet rocks, a small bird, and knew it from the pages of a book; it was the dipper, and dipping he was, as well as, sometimes, on a rock-peak, starting up the dear, strong pipe of his voice; at this, there […]
Reflection (Oscar Romero)
Reflection…. The church cannot be deaf or mute before the entreaty of millions of persons who cry out for liberation, persons oppressed by a thousand slaveries. But the church tells them what is the true liberty they must seek: the freedom that Christ began on earth when he rose and burst the chains of sin, […]
Memorial Tablet
by Siegfried Sassoon (1918) Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight, (Under Lord Derby’s scheme). I died in hell – (They called it Passchendaele). My wound was slight, And I was hobbling back; and then a shell Burst slick upon the duckboards: so I fell Into the bottomless mud, and lost the light […]
God Of Grace And God Of Glory
God of grace and God of glory, On Thy people pour Thy power. Crown Thine ancient church’s story, Bring her bud to glorious flower. Grant us wisdom, grant us courage, For the facing of this hour, For the facing of this hour. Lo! the hosts of evil ’round us, Scorn Thy Christ, assail His ways. […]
Spring (Christina Rossetti)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-159 (Devotional) SPRING [albeit in the southern hemisphere where CLM originates!] Spring bursts today, For Christ is risen and all the earth’s at play. Flash forth, thou sun, The rain is over and gone, its work is done. Winter is past, Sweet spring is come at last, is come at last. Bud, […]
The Excitement
My grandfather was given to believing In ghosts beside the Holy Ghost. As a boy He felt an invisible hand clap on his head As a voice murmured, “You are in my power.” As a man he heard his mother’s voice in the pulpit. In some lights he could picture people’s souls As shrouds of […]
A Song Reflecting Troubles
Artist: Don Moen Song: I will sing Lord you seem so far away A million miles or more it feels today Though I haven’t lost my faith I must confess right now it’s hard For me to pray.. But I don’t know what to do And I don’t what to say But as you give […]
The Church’s One Foundation
THE CHURCH’S ONE FOUNDATION [Traditional Version] The church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord: she is his new creation by water and the word; from heaven he came and sought her to be his holy bride; with his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died. Elect from every nation yet […]
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