Mary Oliver makes a Eucharistic feast out of a fish she has caught, bringing to mind Jesus’s injunction to become “a fisher of people.”
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I Am the Bread of Life
Jesus declared that he was “the bread of life.” These poems explore the metaphor.
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This Altar the Earth Herself Has Given
Guite traces an old oaken altar back to the tree out of which it was made, which also blessed the elements.
No One Understood the Final Meal
In this poem, Mark Jarman shows how the Last Supper was just like any other meal–until it wasn’t.
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The Poetry of Holy Bread
I share a church talk on “The Poetry of Bread” where I shared poems by Levertov, Ungar, Neruda, Underhill, and others.
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Out of Pain We Feed This Feverish Plot
One can read Mary Oliver’s “The Fish” as a description of the eucharist–which is appropriate for today’s gospel reading about fishing for people.
Hearts Seized by What Is Possible
Chard DeNiord grapples sensitively and intelligently with the meaning of transubstantiation.
The Bloody Flesh Our Only Food
I share a Good Friday poem by T. S. Eliot and a Passover poem by Norman Finkelstein.
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Jesus as the New Dionysus
Parallels between Dionysus and Christ are clearly drawn in Michael Cacoyannis’s translation of “The Bacchae.”
