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Updated on December 3, 2020
Poem for the Second Sunday of Advent
The ComingAnd God held in his handA small globe. Look he said.The son looked. Far off,As through water, he sawA scorched land of fierceColour. The light burnedThere; crusted buildingsCast their shadows: a brightSerpent, a riverUncoiled itself, radiantWith slime.On …
Updated on November 26, 2020
Poem for the First Sunday of Advent
Wachet Auf (Wake up!) Advent. Season when Dual citizenship Holds us in Awkward tension. The world, intent on Spending Christmas, Eats and drinks its way to Oblivion after dinner. The Kingdom sounds Insistent warnings: Repent, be ready, Keep awake, …
Updated on November 19, 2020
Poem for Christ the King Sunday
The Kingdom It’s a long way off but inside it there are quite different things going on; festivals at which the poor man is king and the consumptive is healed; mirrors in which the blind look at themselves …
Updated on November 12, 2020
Poem for the Second Sunday before Advent
Sacred Messenger Out in the bay, unsettling asone gleaming fin breaks the surface,then the curved black back. Close now the great animal’s eye holds minewith acceptance and questioning;could I even say love? Perhaps the bearer of a gift, …
Updated on January 14, 2021
Advent Retreat
UPDATE: Registration for this retreat is now closed. If you’d like receive links to the recordings of each session, which will be emailed on Wednesdays and will be available to view for one week, please use this link …
Updated on November 5, 2020
Poem For Remembrance Sunday
By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered,and confidently waiting come what may,we know that God is with us night and morningand never fails to greet us each new day. Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented,still evil …
Updated on October 30, 2020
Poem for All Saints and All Souls Day
There is a placeThere is a place prepared for little children,those we once lived for, those we deeply mourn,those who from play, from learning and from laughtertoo soon were torn. There is a place where hands which held …
Updated on October 22, 2020
Poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity
Today’s poem is Love after Love by Derek Walcott (1930-2017). I am grateful to Richard Rohr (in his book The Universal Christ SPCK 2019) for drawing attention to this poem by the St Lucian poet Derek Walcott. “ All of us …
Updated on October 15, 2020
Poem for the 19th Sunday after Trinity
Today’s poem is Turning Fifty by Judith Wright, 1915-2000. The Australian poet Judith Wright was also an uncompromising environmentalist and social activist campaigning for Aboriginal land rights. I include this poem for all hard working, socially aware young …
Updated on October 9, 2020
Poem for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Earth’s crammed with heaven,And every common bush afire with God;But only he who sees, takes off his shoes —The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,And daub their natural faces unaware……. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 extract from …