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Isaiah 64.1-9 | Psalm 80.1-7, 17-19 | 1 Corinthians 1.1-9 | Mark 13.24-37 |

On the Mystery of the Incarnation
by Denise Levertov (1923–1997)

It's when we face for a moment
the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know
the taint in our own selves, that awe
cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart:
not to a flower, not to a dolphin,
to no innocent form
but to this creature vainly sure
it and no other is god-like, God
(out of compassion for our ugly
failure to evolve) entrusts,
as guest, as brother,
the Word.

Prayer

Almighty God,
give us grace to cast away the works of darkness
and to put on the armour of light,
now in the time of this mortal life,
in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
that on the last day,
when he shall come again in his glorious majesty
to judge the living and the dead,
we may rise to the life immortal;
through him who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

"Father, we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand." Isaiah 64:8
Bamboo pottery tools

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Come, Oh Redeemer, Come, sung by Fernando Ortega, from his 1999 EP Give me Jesus.