“It is not simply that we need poetry and the other arts to help us apprehend the mystery of the incarnation but that the mystery of incarnation itself is what makes the imaginative arts possible.” ArtPoetryImaginationIncarnation Author:Malcolm Guite
“O Sapientia I cannot think unless I have been thought, Nor can I speak unless I have been spoken. I cannot teach except as I am taught, Or break the bread except as I am broken. O Mind behind the mind through which I seek, O Light within the light by which I see, O Word beneath the words with which I speak, O founding, unfound Wisdom, finding me, O sounding Song whose depth is sounding me, O Memory of time, reminding me, My Ground of Being, always grounding me, My Maker's Bounding Line, defining me, Come, hidden Wisdom, come with all you bring, Come to me now, disguised as everything.” WisdomAntiphonArche Book:Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany Source: Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
“Receive this cross of ash upon your brow Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday's cross; The forests of the world are burning now And you make late repentance for the loss. But all the trees of God would clap their hands, The very stones themselves would shout and sing, If you could covenant to love these lands And recognize in Christ their lord and king. He sees the slow destruction of those trees, He weeps to see the ancient places burn, And still you make what purchases you please And still to dust and ashes you return. But Hope could rise from ashes even now Beginning with this sign upon your brow.” RepentanceAsh Wednesday Book:The Word in the Wilderness Source: The Word in the Wilderness