Lent V

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“Now the green blade rises
from the buried grain,
wheat that in the dark earth
many days has lain;
love lives again,
that with the dead has been;
love is come again
like wheat arising green.”

Hymn 237 - Common Praise


Image Attribution: Evans, Edwin, 1844-1923. Grain Fields, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57001 [retrieved March 20, 2021]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evans-GrainFields.png.