Hello –
Join us tomorrow for virtual worship. Come to your screen prepared with a piece of bread and perhaps a sip of wine or juice for a virtual blessing at the appropriate time.
Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/stpaulssanrafael/
And join us afterwards at 10:15am when we will virtually discuss Gerard Manley Hopkins’ great poem God’s Grandeur.
Here’s the info and link (If you haven’t yet figured out Zoom, you can still call in on the number below. And please tell me! We are slowly getting everyone on Zoom, which is the main way we will be connecting in the coming months):
St. Paul’s Host is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Spiritual Forum
Time: Mar 29, 2020 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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And here’s the poem:
God’s Grandeur
BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.