A reflection for Advent , featuring the poetry of R . S . Thomas . First broadcast as part of the Church Times and Canterbury Press Advent Retreat in November 2020. Carys Walsh has worked in ministerial selection and formation for many years, including in the Ministry Division of the Church of England, as a psychotherapist, as a tutor in Christian …
R . S . Thomas , a poet of waiting and anticipation, can be a profound guide for this season. His spiritual and poetic trajectory of discovering the presence of God – divine ‘frequencies’ – even in apparent absence, can help lead us into an Advent landscape of surrender, open-hearted discovery, epiphany and encounter.
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12/2/2020 · The Coming is an advent poem by R . S . Thomas . Here it is brought to life by animator Rod March and voiced by Barry Cooper.To discover more about Christmas, ge…
11/29/2010 · Advent II: ‘The Waiting’, by RS Thomas . Are there angels or only the Furies? We sleep on a stone pillow and the troubles of Europe are the molecules that compound it. Where is … Posted in Poetry, R . S . Thomas on 29 November, 2010 by Jason Goroncy. Leave a comment Post navigation, R . S . Thomas , a poet of waiting and anticipation, can be a profound guide for this season. His spiritual and poetic trajectory of discovering the presence of God – divine ‘frequencies’ – even in apparent absence, can help lead us into an Advent landscape of surrender, open-hearted discovery, epiphany and encounter.
The poetic lines quoted in the sermon are by R . S . Thomas (1913-2000), who, as a priest in the Anglican Church of Wales served rural Welsh parishes for forty years, even as he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. A few years ago our vine-covered picket fence was flattened by a.
12/6/2019 · An Advent Urban Retreat with Pádraig Ó Tuama. R . S . Thomas was a Welsh poet and priest. Prolific in publishing during his lifetime, his work spanned landscape, religion, nationalism, power and prayer. At once both soothing and unsettling, his work takes strong language and puts it into the place of poetry and prayer.
In the meantime, such seeing typically requires what is another great advent theme: waiting, or what R . S . Thomas , in his poem ‘Kneeling’, called ‘moments of great calm’: Moments of great calm, Kneeling before an altar Of wood in a stone church In summer, waiting for the God To speak the air a staircase For silence the sun’ s light, R S Thomas . 1913-2000 . Ronald Stuart Thomas was born in Cardiff in 1913, the son of a sea captain. He was educated at University College of North Wales and later undertook theological training at St Michael’ s College in Cardiff. He was …
