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| Illumination depicting Paul's conversion from Livres d'heures d'Etienne Chevalier ca. 1450 - 1460 |
Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of January 24, 2016
January 24: Psalm 21: 1 - 6
January 25 - The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle - 1 Corinthians 12: 1 - 11
January 26: Psalm 36: 5 - 12
January 28: Ephesians 4: 1 - 8
January 29: Mark 3: 1 - 6
January 30: Ephesians 4: 11 - 16
Paul blinded, being led into Damascus - a Poem by Malcolm Guite
He cannot see the crescent moon, but feels
This night’s wide wilderness. He is afraid,
And holds the hand of one he used to lead,
Through folds and shadows where the moonlight falls
He holds his counsel and still holds the road,
As it winds northward. Rounding a last bend,
Paul senses each slight change in scent and sound;
A gradual Damascus just ahead,
Whose pre-dawn hush is filling him with dread,
For what awaits him there is his true end.
Slowly from Ananias he will learn
To touch the body and to break the bread
And, as the scales fall from his eyes, discern
How Love himself has risen from the dead.
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