Come Holy Gift
Prayer Poems for the Christian Year
Published on 28. February 2022
96 pages
978-1-78622-414-9 (ISBN)
Description
Reminiscent of Malcolm Guite's bestselling Sounding the Seasons, this beautiful collection offers scripture-inspired poems for each of the major seasons of the Christian year. It includes:* The Call to Prayer (with poetry on the nature of prayer);* Advent, Christmas and Epiphany;* Lent, Easter and Pentecost (including Wings of Wounded Glory, a sequence for Holy Week);* Transforming Ordinary Time (including some feasts which fall outside the major seasons);* In the School of Mary (poetic reflections on Mary, see as a model for prayer, contemplation and prophecy).An introduction considers the relationship between prayer and poetry and offers suggestions for using the book in public and private worship settings, and a closing sequence contemplates Mary as a figure of prayers and witness.
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Steven Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University, where he was previously Anglican Chaplain, and is editor of Modern Believing. He is a member of the Sodality of Mary, an inclusive association for Anglo-Catholic clergy whose Patron is the Archbishop of York.
Content
- Intro
- Come Holy Gift
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1: On the Way to Prayer
- Lost
- Divine Office
- Praying with Grass
- Falling
- Part 2: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
- Strange Genealogies: Matriarchs, Prophets and Mothers
- I. Sarah
- II. Tamar
- III. Rahab
- IV. Ruth
- V. Bathsheba
- VI. Mary's sisters
- The Joyful Mysteries
- I. The Annunciation
- II. The Visitation
- III. The Birth of Jesus
- IV. The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
- V. The Disappearance and Finding of Jesus at the Temple
- The Mysteries of Joseph
- I. Joseph descended from David
- II. Joseph the Just Man
- III. Joseph following a Dream takes Mary as his Wife
- IV. Joseph warned in a Dream takes Mary and Jesus into Egypt
- V. Joseph the Carpenter
- For the Winter Solstice
- The Angel's View
- Magus
- Part 3: Lent, Easter and Pentecost
- Ashes to Ashes
- Deserter
- The Sorrowful Mysteries
- I. The Agony in the Garden
- II. The Scourging at the Pillar
- III. The Crowning with Thorns
- IV. The Carrying of the Cross
- V. The Crucifixion
- tree of life
- Wings of Wounded Glory
- Monday in Holy Week: John 12.1-11
- Tuesday in Holy Week: John 12.20-36
- Wednesday in Holy Week: John 13.21-32
- Maundy Thursday: John 13.1-17, 31-35
- Good Friday: John 18 and 19
- Holy Saturday: John 19.38-end/Matthew 27.57-end
- Easter Sunday: John 20.1-18
- Unused
- Descended into Hell
- Ecce Homo
- After the Earthquake
- The Glorious Mysteries
- I. The Resurrection
- II. The Ascension of Christ into Heaven
- III. The Descent of the Holy Spirit
- IV. The Assumption
- V. The Coronation of Our Lady in Heaven and the Glory of the Saints
- Come, Holy Gift
- Beltane Spirit
- Part 4: Transforming Ordinary Time
- Ordinary Time
- The Luminous Mysteries
- I. The Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan
- II. The Wedding at Cana
- III. The Proclamation of the Kingdom
- IV. The Transfiguration
- V. The Institution of the Eucharist
- Diakonos
- The River
- Hoc est enim corpus meum
- Sacred Heart
- Transfiguration
- Four Quarters
- How to Eat Bread
- All Saints
- All Souls
- Part 5: In the School of Mary
- Mary's Hands
- She pondered all these Things
- Assumption
- Black Madonna
- She rises
