Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ash Wednesday to Lent, week 1: Preparation
Ash Wednesday - Surview - Thomas Hardy
Thursday - King Lear - William Shakespeare
Friday - The poor parson - Geoffrey Chaucer 9
Saturday Lachrimae amantis Geoffrey Hill
Week 1: Testing
Monday - Batter my heart - John Donne
Tuesday - God moves in a mysterious way - William Cowper
Wednesday - Twice - Christina Rossetti
Thursday - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friday - In Memoriam - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Saturday - In memory of W. B. Yeats - W. H. Auden
Week 2: Grace
Monday - I count the moments of my mercies up - Elizabeth Jennings
Tuesday - The quality of sprawl - Les Murray
Wednesday - If thou must love me . . . - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thursday - The moor - R. S. Thomas
Friday - The kingdom of God - Francis Thompson
Saturday - Prayer - Carol Ann Duffy
Week 3: Glory in the ordinary
Monday - Miracles - Walt Whitman
Tuesday - And that is your glory - Yehuda Amichai
Wednesday - The glory - Edward Thomas
Thursday - Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey - William Wordsworth 69
Friday - Jubilate Agno - Christopher Smart
Saturday - Ode on a Grecian urn - John Keats
Week 4: Parental love
Monday - Oh antic God - Lucille Clifton
Tuesday - The almond tree - Jon Stallworthy
Wednesday - Walking away - C. Day-Lewis
Thursday - Mother to son - Langston Hughes
Friday - Digging - Seamus Heaney
Saturday - Taking a chance - Richard Harries
Week 5: Being fully human
Monday - As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Tuesday - On imagination - Phyllis Wheatley
Wednesday - An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
Thursday - Eve remembering - Toni Morrison
Friday - One foot in Eden still - Edwin Muir
Saturday - Who am I? - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Holy Week: Death
Monday - When my time come - Khadijah Ibrahiim
Tuesday - The trees are down - Charlotte Mew
Wednesday - The father, the son - Roger McGough
Maundy Thursday - The Dream of the Rood - Early English, anonymous
Good Friday - To the good thief - Saunders Lewis
Holy Saturday - No coward soul is mine - Emily Brontë
Easter and into the new life in Christ
Easter Day - Piers Plowman - William Langland
Monday of Easter Week - Easter - Edmund Spenser
Tuesday of Easter Week - I saw him standing - Ann Griffiths
Wednesday of Easter Week - Easter - George Herbert
Thursday of Easter Week - O Sapientia - Malcolm Guite
Friday of Easter Week - Shadows - D. H. Lawrence
Saturday of Easter Week - Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats
Second Sunday of Easter - This world is not conclusion - Emily Dickinson
Monday - Signs - Piers Plowright
Tuesday - Little Gidding - T. S. Eliot
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