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Quotable Archive

A NEW PSALM

 

On this day and every day

Let us give praise to our God-

Why else did Love create us?

Why else are we waiting in Jerusalem?

Israelites of the New Covenant

Awake!

Love approaches, asking,

"Are you my Beloved?"

See! The heavens are glimpsed,

In the thin spaces

Intersecting heaven and earth

By the humble of heart.

Given a new voice,

Turning to one another,

Let us joyfully proclaim

The Good News!

For this brother of ours,

Is the velvet hammer of

Compassion and mercy,

Vanquishing death’s black hole.

We are given a new voice,

By the one

Who has proved faithful to us

Through death.

To the holy one of Israel,

Who brings to us

The fire of dimensionless Pentecost-

In thanksgiving. Amen

 

—Garth Stanton, "Journeying to Jerusalem: From Epiphany to Easter, 2007" (private printing)

 

Quotable Archive

Just click on a "Quotable" title below to read the review.
(The latest submissions are listed first.)

• A PRAYER TO THE CREATOR •
• A PRAYER FOR OUR EARTH •
• ON TURNING •
• Prayer for Peace •
• Pentecost •
• Second Synod of Orange •
• 7 Social Sins •
• The Homily •
• Resurrection •
• Sin Is Something that Changes... •
• AND THEN... •
• The Winter Journey of Advent •
• A Prayer For the World •
• Come Home •
• A New Psalm •
• A blessing for Preachers •
• Christmas In A Prison Cell •
• Compare Reading the Scriptures With Eating the Eucharist... •
• DOMINICAN PREACHER •
• Eastering •
• For Me To Preach... •
• Formulas •
• I Am Disciple •
• Indeed Any Sermon... •
• Jesus, Light of the World, Come •
• Lament For A Son •
• Lenten Penance •
• Litany of Non-Violence •
• Lovelight •
• Making the House Ready for the Lord •
• Money Order Angels •
• Ongoing Listening •
• On Jordan's Bank •
• Peace Prayer •
• Preacher •
• Preaching At Weddings •
• Preaching Is Dangerous •
• Preaching Has As Its Primary Purpose... •
• Seeds of Contemplation •
• The Homily Is Not... •
• The Difference Between Dead and Living Sermons •
• The Dominican Family •
• The Natural World •
• The Season of Pentecost •