Through Another Lens: Reflections on the Gospels Year C by Barbara Franklin

By Barbara Franklin

hrough one other Lens is helping readers see prayers and reflections at the Sunday Gospels for liturgical Cycle C in the course of the special prism of non secular poetry. using an leading edge option to view sacred Scripture, via one other Lens attracts from vintage poems via Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, John Donne, and others, to light up and deepen an realizing of God's be aware as we consider all the Sunday Gospels.

A time venerated non secular perform, examining sacred poetry permits us to put aside our mundane issues whereas we glance on the Gospels with new eyes. after we learn a poem we don't easily learn phrases; we input a sacred house. again and again this expertise, in addition to the phrases themselves, leads us into prayer and meditation. The adventure of utilizing a unique lens to wish with every one Sunday Gospel demanding situations the reader to go into each one Gospel passage in a brand new method, prime us to a brand new, deeper, and richer communion with God's message.

Through prayerful contemplation of the Gospels visible during the lens of poetry, Barbara Jean Franklin, ASC, empowers each one people to use Jesus' teachings to our day-by-day lives. via one other Lens is a useful better half piece to the Sunday Gospels for private mirrored image or pastoral ministry.

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