The open curtain

After Hebrews 10:12-25 

The curtain opens,

no longer veiled,

no longer a barrier,

it opens to the holy places

previously unapproachable.

Now we draw near

with a true heart.

Now we draw near

with full assurance.

Now we draw near

with a clean heart.

Now we hold fast

to the promise of faith.

Now we encourage

one another to do good.

Now we walk forward

together, as the One

has made us.

 

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Some Sunday Readings

 

Current Events – poem by Jen Rose Yokel at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

A sonnet for the Venerable Bede – Malcolm Guite.

 

Things an Evangelical Learned from a Catholic History of Europe – Louis Markos at The Imaginative Conservative.

The perfection

After Hebrews 10:12-25 

A single offering,

a single sacrifice,

most fragrant of all,

most pleasing of all, 

and then the offering,

the sacrifice, sat

at the right hand,

sat, waiting until

the footstool for his feet

was made, a footstool

of enemies, defeated.

His sacrifice perfected

all being sanctified,

perfected for all time,

no further sacrifice

needed or necessary.

It is finished.

 

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Some Friday Readings

 

The Unsung St. Nicholas – Joseph Pearce at the Imaginative Conservative.

 

Wandering in Silence – David Bannon at Front Porch Republic.

 

The Shepherd Boy – poem by John Bunyan at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin). 

 

That Time Paul Gave Timothy a Quote from Luke’s Gospel – Mitch Chase at Biblical Theology.

 

Responsibility and Blame Culture – Bill Grandi at Living in the Shadow.

 

The Conversion of John Randolph – Miles Smith at The Imaginative Conservative.