Old Testament: Jeremiah 20:7–13
Gospel: John 10:31–42
Psalm 18:1–7
The gospel for today delves straight into the fire of what it means to inhabit (and be inhabited by) God. Jesus tells the men with stones to “believe the works” even if they cannot believe in their divinity. He is making a case for wonder and awe as a vehicle into faith.
For how can we believe miracles without being enticed by the miraculous? How can we speak of Christ without tumbling into poetry?
Undevastated Sanctus
with Simone Weil
Because winter arrives.
Advent’s parched undertow
humbles herself, mid-throat.
Table set for a fist of white iris.
If liberty is this ability
to choose, I lack formal instruction.
Hobbled by swollen tonsils, I watch
the season’s intimate malefice reorder the room.
Ignore the song for the sight
of mother wren assembling a nest
without socialization:
I don’t know how we know.
Or whether.
Success: too frail
a construct for the weight of life
breaking open.
A beak’s silence shawls me.
We stake so much on what
seems natural.
And who can believe
a black bear gives birth
to live cubs without
waking from sleep?
Alina Stefanescu Coryell
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