Two shepherd poems to mark the shepherd references in today’s lectionary.
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Hearing the Celestial Voices
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The God of Love My Shepherd Is
The 23rd Psalm is one of the great poems in the Hebrew Chronicles. It also inspired a fine George Herbert poem.
The God of Love My Shepherd Is
George Herbert rewrites the 23rd psalm in subtle ways, turning the Lord in the “God of Love” and filling the cup with the eucharist.
The Lord Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want
Spiritual Sunday This past Sunday in our Episcopal Church, the 23rd psalm, it seems, was everywhere. We read the psalm itself aloud and sang two or three hymns that were versions of it. The gospel lesson dealt with the parable of the lost sheep, a comforting passage given its assertion that “the good shepherd” loves […]
