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Donna Marie
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Can anyone share reverent Lent/Easter prayers or poetry? We are looking for some devotional items for our notebooks...Thank you!!
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There may be a couple in this thread: Seasonal Poems.
And, we just started with this one today:
At Easter Time
The little flowers came through the ground,
At Easter time, at Easter time;
They raised their heads and looked around,
A happy Easter time.
And every pretty bud did say,
“Good people, bless this holy day,
For Christ is risen, the angels say
At happy Easter time!”
The scarlet lily raised its cup
At Easter time, at Easter time;
The crocus to the sky looked up
At happy Easter time.
“We'll hear the song of Heaven!” they say,
“Its glory shines on us today.
Oh, may it shine on us always
At holy Easter time!”
'Twas long and long and long ago,
That Easter time, that Easter time;
But still the scarlet lilies blow,
At happy Easter time.
And still each little flower doth say
“Good Christians, bless this holy day,
For Christ is risen, the angels say
At blessed Easter time!”
~ Laura E. Richards
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I'm going to state the obvious. Did you include the Easter Sequence and the hymn Ye Sons and Daughters?
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JennGM wrote:
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nope, not yet...I am starting from scratch and with a sleep-deprived brain to boot! Thank you for the suggestion!
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The Regina Caeli/Queen of Heaven would be perfect, of course.
Here are a few poems I've just begun reading with the children in the mornings:
Easter Week by Charles Kingsley
See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices;
Fields and gardens hail the spring;
Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices,
While the wild birds build and sing.
You, to whom your Maker granted
Powers to those sweet birds unknown,
Use the craft by God implanted;
Use the reason not your own.
Here, while heaven and earth rejoices,
Each his Easter tribute bring-
Work of fingers, chant of voices,
Like the birds who build and sing.
Easter by Katharine Tynan
Bring flowers to strew His way,
Yea, sing, make holiday;
Bid young lambs leap,
And earth laugh after sleep.
For now He cometh forth
Winter flies to the north,
Folds wings and cries
Amid the bergs and ice.
Yea, Death, great Death is dead,
And Life reigns in his stead;
Cometh the Athlete
New from dead Death's defeat.
Cometh the Wrestler,
But Death he makes no stir,
Utterly spent and done,
And all his kingdom gone.
On Easter Day by Celia Thaxter
Easter lilies, Can you hear
What they whisper, low and clear?
In dewy fragrance they unfold
Their splendor sweet, their snow and gold.
Every beauty-breathing bell
News of heaven has to tell.
Listen to their mystic voice,
Hear, oh mortal, and rejoice!
Hark, their soft and heavenly chime!
Christ is risen for all time!
And a bit heavy for the littles, but I can rarely resist Gerard Manley Hopkins!...
Easter Communion by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast:
God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips.
You striped in secret with breath-taking whips,
Those crooked rough-scored chequers may be pieced
To crosses meant for Jesu's; you whom the East
With draught of thin and pursuant cold so nips
Breathe Easter now; you serged fellowships,
You vigil-keepers with low flames decreased,
God shall o'er-brim the measures you have spent
With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze
And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment
Give myrrhy-threaded golden folds of ease.
Your scarce-sheathed bones are weary of being bent:
Lo, God shall strengthen all the feeble knees.
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