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| Icon of St. Mark Emmanuel Tzanes, 1657 |
Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of April 24, 2016
April 24 - Mark 4: 21 - 25
April 25 - St, Mark The Evangelist - John 6: 16 - 21
April 26 - Acts 9: 36 - 42
April 27 - Psalm 33: 18 - 22
April 28 - 1 Thessalonians 1: 2 - 10
April 29 - Matthew 6: 7 - `5
April 30 - Revelation 7: 9 - 12
A wingèd lion, swift, immediate
Mark is the gospel of the sudden shift
From first to last, from grand to intimate,
From strength to weakness, and from debt to gift,
From a wide deserts haunted emptiness
To a close city’s fervid atmosphere,
From a voice crying in the wilderness
To angels in an empty sepulcher.
And Christ makes the most sudden shift of all;
From swift action as a strong Messiah
Casting the very demons back to hell
To slow pain, and death as a pariah.
We see our Saviour’s life and death unmade
And flee his tomb dumbfounded and afraid.
Mark is the gospel of the sudden shift
From first to last, from grand to intimate,
From strength to weakness, and from debt to gift,
From a wide deserts haunted emptiness
To a close city’s fervid atmosphere,
From a voice crying in the wilderness
To angels in an empty sepulcher.
And Christ makes the most sudden shift of all;
From swift action as a strong Messiah
Casting the very demons back to hell
To slow pain, and death as a pariah.
We see our Saviour’s life and death unmade
And flee his tomb dumbfounded and afraid.
(Click on the link above and scroll down to hear the author reading his poem.)
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