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It’s The Fourth Monday in Lent in the Church Calendar. We are celebrating the life of John Donne, Priest, 1631. March 31, 2025.
Praying today with Suzanne in Amherst, TX for Connie.
Our general order and lectionary come from the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office.
Today’s song: I Am Your Beloved (Brandon Lake, Jonathan David Helser)
Psalm 16:5-11
John Donne’s Holy Sonnet “Batter my heart, three-person’d God”
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Collect of the Day
John Donne, Priest, 1631, Rite Two
Almighty God, the root and fountain of all being: Open our eyes to see, with your servant John Donne, that whatever has any being is a mirror in which we may behold you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person’d God
By John Donne
Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town to another due,
Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy;
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.