by revd | May 2, 2025 | Our Father
All things rising, all things sizing Mary sees, sympathising With that world of good, Nature’s motherhood. Their magnifying of each its kind With delight calls to mind How she did in her stored Magnify the Lord. Gerard Manley Hopkins...
by revd | Apr 25, 2025 | Believers
I have had worse partings, but none that so Gnaws at my mind still. Perhaps it is roughly Saying what God alone could perfectly show – How selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-72), Walking Away ...
by revd | Apr 17, 2025 | Our Father
O if we but knew what we do When we delve or hew – Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender…. Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. Ten or twelve, only ten...
by revd | Apr 12, 2025 | Believers
Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say; And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled shield Should tongue that time now, trumpet now that field, And, on the fighter, forge his glorious day. On Christ they do and on the martyr may; But be the war within, the...
by revd | Mar 27, 2025 | Jesus Christ
But ah, bright forelock, cluster that you are Of favoured make and mind and health and youth, Where lies your landmark, sea mark, or soul’s star? There’s none but truth can stead you. Christ is truth. There’s none but good can be good, both...
