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Soul Food for The Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sunday 9th February 2025


Luke 5:1-11

“Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.”
God’s Grandeur

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs –

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

If we put our nets today, I wonder if we would catch the ‘Grandeur of God’?

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