Suggestion for Daily Use

Follow the ‘Daily Prayer’ at the side+++Suivez le ‘Prière Quotidienne’. Read the bible passages and then the meditation. Pray, tell God how you felt about the reading and share the concerns of your life with him. Maybe you will continue the habit after Lent. Lisez les passages bible et après la méditation. Priez, dites à Dieu que vous avez ressenti à propos de la lecture et de partager les préoccupations de votre vie avec lui. Peut-être que vous allez continuer l'habitude après le Carême. Daily Prayer Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. Luke 4.1-2 Now is the healing time decreed For sins of heart, of word or deed, When we in humble fear record The wrong that we have done the Lord. (Latin, before 12th century) Read: Read the Bible passage. Read the meditation Pray: Talk to God about what you have just read. Tell him your concerns - for yourself, your family, our church family, our world. Praise him. Pray the collect for the week – see next pages. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Prière Quotidienne Jésus, rempli de l'Esprit Saint, revint du Jourdain et le Saint-Esprit le conduisit dans le désert où il fut tenté par le diable durant quarante jours. Luc 4.1-2 Maintenant le temps de la guérison est décrété Pour les péchés du cœur, de la parole et des actes, Lorsque nous nous souvenons avec humilité Le mal que nous avons fait au Seigneur. Lire : Lisez le passage de la Bible. Lisez la méditation. Prier : Parlez avec le Seigneur de ce que vous avez lu. Parlez-lui de vos préoccupations pour vous-même, votre famille, notre famille de l’église, notre monde. Louez-le. Priez la collecte pour la semaine. Voyez les pages suivantes Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur ! Que tout qui est en moi bénisse son saint nom. Mon âme, bénis le Seigneur, et n’oublie aucun de ses bienfaits !

27 February 2020

Lesser Festival of George Herbert, priest, poet, 1633

Psalm 1   Psaumes 1    Psalmen 1

Malachi 2.5-7   Revelation19.5-9   Matthew 11.25-30

Malachie 2.5-7  Apocalypse 19.5-9   Matthieu 11.25-30

Maleachi 2.5-7   Openbaring 19.5-9   Mattheüs 11.25-30



Wingéd words

George Herbert (1593-1633) was a British priest and poet whom I had never heard of before being invited to do this Lent meditation for the day of his Lesser Festival. As I read about his life, my first reaction is to label him as just another person born in another age, another place, in completely other circumstances, far away from mine. But as I see how he left his fancy world of politics, kings and glory and chose to spend the last years of his short life serving the parishioners of the humble village of Lower Bemerton my interest for his life grows. Somehow he comes closer, perhaps because I myself come from a little island quite far from everything interesting and written and talked about.

What was the reason of this downshifting from the exciting life of orating in Cambridge and in the parliament to the humble country life? Was he tired of the political jargon? Of the sharp elbows of all those around him incessantly striving for more fame, money and power? Did he feel like hiding away? Like putting his hands in the mud and have some fresh air for his tuberculosis-stricken lungs?
In his rural seclusion he gave birth to texts that still seem to be read today, well, at least I think so. The poem of ‘Easter Wings’ published on Wikipedia (entry of George Herbert) at least touches me.

How intelligent and creative! A poem about wings written in the form of a double pair of wings illustrating in a fantastic manner the Easter message of glory - decline - death - resurrection - new birth. Winged words rising from the little village of George Herbert, flying beyond space and time to give us new life and inspiration today.

This is a song that I have written inspired by the life of George Herbert and of one of the texts of this day, Psalm 1. Let us draw from the same well as George Herbert and do good in our little world today just has he did in his 400 years ago.


Sara Gabrielsson

Winged Words, George Herbert, 1593-1633
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th edition, edited by Margaret Ferguson, et al., p 331, New York: W.W. Norton & Company (1996), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11210303



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