Anglican Spirituality through Poetry - Anglican Catechetical Initiative
May 5, 2026 · 1 hr 52 min · 19 segments
Here, we meet as a group to discuss Anglican spirituality through poetry, collects, and prayer. We hope this is encouraging to you!
May 5, 2026 · 1 hr 52 min · 19 segments
Here, we meet as a group to discuss Anglican spirituality through poetry, collects, and prayer. We hope this is encouraging to you!
That God is described as this immortal heat whose greater flame attracts our lesser flame to it and enlivens our flame, our sort of capturing of the light of God with his own light.
And the prayer that Herbert prays here is, is this prayer that asks the fire that God is to consume the world, the fire that will consume the world to make it tame first.
And that reflects this deep-seated, not only Anglican belief, but this belief shared throughout the greater Catholic tradition.
that the judgment of god is intended to make the world anew that the fires of god's judgment when it comes is meant to purify it's meant to heal the sort of broken contours of the world C.S. Lewis, actually, in his book on miracles, I was just reading this yesterday, talks about how nature itself cries out for healing.
The world of nature and the world of supernature, the sort of supernatural realm, are interlocked.
They're related to each other such that the wounds of sin have ripple effects on the order of creation.
Part of Anglican asceticism is actually not just sort of this dire kind of self-mortification for the sake of self-mortification.
Mortification always tends towards, for us, the kindling of desires, of true desires, that make the way of the Lord in our hearts, such that our hearts will
pant
after God forever.
And here you have this sort of ancient theme reflected, and it's called in Latin, the scheme of exitus reditus, this idea that creation goes forth from God and is meant to return to God.
The idea of creation's return to God is this idea of creation being ordered, as it were, into a symphony of praise to be catalyzed back to our creator.
so our hearts will one day pant after the and all of the inventions of our brain will lay it at the altar of god remember the altar is in both in the old covenant and then in the new covenant table is where we present the supreme gifts we have and offer them back to god and that tracks the sort of scheme of creation in which creation goes out from god is meant to return to god and And in hymns, we send back God's fire.
So that fire that we derived from the being of his love, we send back in this form of hymns and in this form of the inventions of our brains.
And our eyes will see God, which before saw dust.
Remember, dust is the symbol of death.
From dust we came and to dust we will return.
Our eyes will, which saw mortality, which saw the sort of effects of the fall, will one day be hallowed by the fire of God's light and love and see him.
They were blind once and yet they will see him.
And this, it ends with this sort of reference to Philippians 2, which of course references Isaiah, that only shall bow to the all which shall rise and praise him who did make and mend our eyes.
Remember this, this idea is forming an inclusio right here.
Our eyes will see God, which saw mortality, and that is itself the result of God stooping down to us by the light of his love, remaking our eyes, both our physical eyes and our spiritual eyes, by the way.
The healing of our physical eyes is such that even our eyes will be elevated in the glory of God so as to see God's light and life in all things.
So that's the supreme sort of restoration of our eyes through which we are able then to offer back that fire of God's life that we've been given from God.
That God is described as this immortal heat whose greater flame attracts our lesser flame to it and enlivens our flame, our sort of capturing of the light of God with his own light.
And the prayer that Herbert prays here is, is this prayer that asks the fire that God is to consume the world, the fire that will consume the world to make it tame first.
And that reflects this deep-seated, not only Anglican belief, but this belief shared throughout the greater Catholic tradition.
that the judgment of god is intended to make the world anew that the fires of god's judgment when it comes is meant to purify it's meant to heal the sort of broken contours of the world C.S. Lewis, actually, in his book on miracles, I was just reading this yesterday, talks about how nature itself cries out for healing.
The world of nature and the world of supernature, the sort of supernatural realm, are interlocked.
They're related to each other such that the wounds of sin have ripple effects on the order of creation.
Part of Anglican asceticism is actually not just sort of this dire kind of self-mortification for the sake of self-mortification.
Mortification always tends towards, for us, the kindling of desires, of true desires, that make the way of the Lord in our hearts, such that our hearts will
pant
after God forever.
And here you have this sort of ancient theme reflected, and it's called in Latin, the scheme of exitus reditus, this idea that creation goes forth from God and is meant to return to God.
The idea of creation's return to God is this idea of creation being ordered, as it were, into a symphony of praise to be catalyzed back to our creator.
so our hearts will one day pant after the and all of the inventions of our brain will lay it at the altar of god remember the altar is in both in the old covenant and then in the new covenant table is where we present the supreme gifts we have and offer them back to god and that tracks the sort of scheme of creation in which creation goes out from god is meant to return to god and And in hymns, we send back God's fire.
So that fire that we derived from the being of his love, we send back in this form of hymns and in this form of the inventions of our brains.
And our eyes will see God, which before saw dust.
Remember, dust is the symbol of death.
From dust we came and to dust we will return.
Our eyes will, which saw mortality, which saw the sort of effects of the fall, will one day be hallowed by the fire of God's light and love and see him.
They were blind once and yet they will see him.
And this, it ends with this sort of reference to Philippians 2, which of course references Isaiah, that only shall bow to the all which shall rise and praise him who did make and mend our eyes.
Remember this, this idea is forming an inclusio right here.
Our eyes will see God, which saw mortality, and that is itself the result of God stooping down to us by the light of his love, remaking our eyes, both our physical eyes and our spiritual eyes, by the way.
The healing of our physical eyes is such that even our eyes will be elevated in the glory of God so as to see God's light and life in all things.
So that's the supreme sort of restoration of our eyes through which we are able then to offer back that fire of God's life that we've been given from God.
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