A Podcast for the First Week of Lent: An Interview with Malcolm Guite

From the Anglican parish of St. Benedict's Table in Winnipeg, MB...for your listening enjoyment and reflection...

The Poet's Ear for the Gospel

A Podcast Interview 

between 

Rev. Jamie Howison and Rev. Malcolm Guite

Click HERE to listen.

Malcolm Guite at a poetry reading, 2014
Source: Wikipedia Commons

Poetry for Lent: Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday*

Receive this cross of ash upon your brow,
Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross.
The forests of the world are burning now
And you make late repentance for the loss.
But all the trees of God would clap their hands
The very stones themselves would shout and sing
If you could covenant to love these lands
And recognise in Christ their Lord and king.

He sees the slow destruction of those trees,
He weeps to see the ancient places burn,
And still you make what purchases you please,
And still to dust and ashes you return.
But Hope could rise from ashes even now
Beginning with this sign upon your brow.

-- Malcolm Guite, Sounding the Seasons, Canterbury Press, 2012

*You can hear the poet reading his sonnet aloud HERE.

Reflections in Ordinary Time

From the end of today's reflection at Morning Prayer:

Christ has no body here but ours,

No hands, no feet here on earth but ours.

Ours, the eyes through which he looks

On this world...with kindness.

Ours are the hands through which he works;

Ours are the feet on which he moves;

Ours, the voices through which he speaks

To this world...with kindness.

Through our touch, our smile, our listening ear,

Embodied in us, Jesus is living here.

Let us go now, inspirited, 

Into this world...with kindness.

-- Steve Bell

Reflections in Ordinary Time:

In the midst of the storm...

Take a nap.

It's scriptural.*

*Thanks to the Anglican Diocese of Calgary for sharing this on Facebook.  It's just what we need right now,  😊