Category: Poetry

• Good Friday: The Cup & The Crucifixion

  Dennis Griffith

  March 29, 2013

  Good Friday, Poetry

  Crucifixion, Good Friday, Gospel Poetry, Humble Beast, Odd Thomas, Suffering & Faith, Sufferings of Christ

• St. Patrick’s Breastplate

  This famous prayer, one of the earliest known European vernacular poems, has been attributed to Patrick – though some scholars say a few of the words indicate a later period. But there is no question that they ooze the spirit and substance we see in Patrick’s Confession. And they reverberate with the power of Christianity that Patrick gave to his adopted…

  Dennis Griffith

  March 17, 2012

  Poetry, Prayers, St Patrick’s Day

  Celtic Christianity, Celtic Prayer, Celtic Spirituality, Prayer, St. Patrick’s Breastplate, St. Patrick’s Day

• I Will Rise

  I will rise and seek my God, And bowed down beneath my load, Lay all my sins before Him; Then He will wash my soul from sin, And put a new heart me within, And teach me to adore Him. O ye that fain would find the joy – The only one that wants alloy…

  Dennis Griffith

  November 29, 2011

  Poetry

  Poem, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, Robert Murray McCheyne