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Common Prayer: A Sonnet for Thomas Cranmer

Even as a picture graven or painted is but a dead representation of the thing itself, and is without life, or any manner of moving; so be the works of all unfaithful persons before God. They do appear...

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Repentance (Tuesday in Easter Week)

“Let the house of Israel know!” He cried, and cut them to the heart Who, guilt of Adam in their bones, Had hammered in the nails.   “What should we do?” they cried in fear, Seeing their hands at the...

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Author of Life (Thursday in Easter Week)

“It’s true: the Author of life lay dead,             Lay three days inside death’s tomb, The Righteous and the Holy One             Made Himself an offering to Ignorant, unrighteous men             Who...

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“Shriven”– Streaming Page CXVI Day 7

Today is Shrove Tuesday, a day simultaneously associated with pancakes and confession of sin. It is also the day before Lent begins, with Ash Wednesday’s focus on repentance: a day…

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Lent 1: Ash Wednesday

Ash marks the face where the image was lost; dust marks the skin once shaped from it. Ash marks the doors to these bodies of dirt; grace marks the scars…

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Lent 2: Thursday After Ash Wednesday

The soil says that we are dust; In dust and soil we stand. A voice from in the wilderness Calls out, Prepare the way… In dust a child lays its…

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Lent 5: First Sunday of Lent

So bones, built to follow, ache When trapped inside guilt’s cave.   Tongues, carved to praise, grow numb When, dry and thick with sin, they lie in silence.   And…

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Kyrie (Cornucopia of Heaven)

Kyrie After Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, “Missa Papae Marcelli: Kyrie”   From earth, from soil, from hearts, from fractures              Kyrie               Kyrie From death, from fire, from...

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My Jonah Heart

Recite this catalogue of wrongs: I loved this tree   –   if you loved me I always knew    –   I told you so… And all the while in Ninevah the people…

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Burnt-out Prayer: For Ash Wednesday

King: I cannot come to You however I choose yet all I am is a bundle hurriedly put together, no sack cloth, no ashes, hair still mussed from slumber, limbs…

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Lent: Emmaus 2

The heavens are telling the glory of God –     (tweet tweet, like like, instant message) His voice goes out to the ends of the earth –     (I fast,…

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Lent: New Song 1

Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord all the earth!…Tell of his salvation from day to day. (Psalm 96:1, 2b) Old songs rot in dead…

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Lent: New Song 2

When morning bright awakens eyes:      awaken tongue; awaken mind. When birdsong sounds the new of day:      sing, soul and heart; sing new pathways. When yesterday creeps back to…

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Lent: New Song 3

Sing to the Lord a new song – The old song is tired; it has no breath. Love and faithfulness have kissed;       sing their song and live. Make way…

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Lent: New Song 6

Newness declares itself in broken hearts: old ruts are vast and carry dust yet penitence cleans fathoms deep      and always makes anew. What yesterday made shame your song today…

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Lent: Enough 5

What warmth I hide in will soon grow cold. All Peter’s false fires, Adam’s cloak of leaves, will burn out, fade, and leave nakedness in ash. Clothe me. My shame…

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My Jonah Heart

Recite this catalogue of wrongs: I loved this tree   –   if you loved me I always knew    –   I told you so… And all the while in Ninevah the people…

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Burnt-out Prayer: For Ash Wednesday

King: I cannot come to You however I choose yet all I am is a bundle hurriedly put together, no sack cloth, no ashes, hair still mussed from slumber, limbs…

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Lent: Emmaus 2

The heavens are telling the glory of God –     (tweet tweet, like like, instant message) His voice goes out to the ends of the earth –     (I fast,…

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Lent: New Song 1

Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord all the earth!…Tell of his salvation from day to day. (Psalm 96:1, 2b) Old songs rot in dead…

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