Lenten Poetry: Ash Wednesday
Priest and poet Laura Darrall journeys through Lent in a week long series of Daily Service programmes exploring poetry from across the centuries.
Priest and poet Laura Darrall journeys through Lent in a week long series of Daily Service programmes exploring poetry from across the centuries. Each service opens with a poem by Laura herself, and the five services take up the themes of Ash Wednesday, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, including famous works by Gerard Manley Hopkins and George Herbert alongside newer writings by living poets including Malcolm Guite and Ally Barrett.
Reading
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Poems
Ash Wednesday - Laura Darrall
Sonnet 鈥楢sh Wednesday鈥� 鈥� Malcolm Guite
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend 鈥� Gerard Manley Hopkins
Music
Kyrie - Victoria: Requiem / Officum defunctorum
Gabrieli Consort
CD: Victoria: Requiem / Officum defunctorum (Archiv)
Crucifixus - Lotti
Tenebrae
CD: Allegri Miserere (Signum)
Forty days and forty nights
St Martin's Voices
成人快手 recording
Spiegel im spiegel - Arvo Part
Tasmin Little & Martin Roscoe
CD: The Very Best of Arvo Part (EMI)
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