Happy Christmas!

Two poems by Herbert:
Christmas (I)
After all pleasures as I rid one day,
My horse and I, both tired, body and mind,
With full cry of affections, quite astray;
I took up the next inn I could find.
There when I came, whom found I but my dear,
My dearest Lord, expecting till the grief
Of pleasures brought me to Him, ready [...]

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Quote for the Day:

The Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent
BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed [...]

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Easter Wings

Here’s Herbert’s poem for Easter. It was originally printed vertically on the pages, formatted like this so that it formed to sets of wins. The set of wings on the left was printed on one page (to be read first) and the other set on the facing page: I had to make it [...]

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Herbert’s ‘The Sacrifice’

Touchstone’s Blog posted Herbert’s poem on the crucifixion today.

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Ordinary Time

They said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?”… Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
Jesus’ work as [...]

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Pentecost

Pentecost
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit

Jesus promised us, His disciples, that He would send “another.” At Pentecost, the church was strengthened for her [...]

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Ascension

Ascension
 
Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.

The Lord who began his descent of humility in His incarnation completes His ascension of exaltation as He ascends to sit “at the right hand of God the Father [...]

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Easter

Resurrection of the Lord
Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war…on his robe and on his thigh he has a name inscribed, “King of kings and Lord of lords.”
 
To say Christ is King is to accept the [...]

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Good Friday

Good Friday

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Christ is not only our Prophet; He is also the Fulfillment of the Priesthood. He is our High Priest who offered up the perfect sacrifice. As the Priest, Jesus sacrificed His [...]

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Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday
Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you from your own people a prophet like me. You must listen to whatever he tells you.

Christ means “the anointed one.” This is no honorary title for Jesus, but shows the offices the Lord fulfills. In the Hebrew Scriptures people were [...]

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