These Holy Mysteries

by Cynthia Erlandson


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 1/14/2005

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 80
ISBN : 9781420804973

About the Book

“These holy mysteries” is phrase which occurs in the Book of Common Prayer, in the context of the Eucharist.  It is in these holy mysteries that God feeds his children with the spiritual food of the body and blood of Jesus Christ.  This meal, never far from view, sustains them through the feasts and fasts of the Christian year.

 

In her first volume of poetry, Cynthia Erlandson explores the mysteries presented to us by the church in each yearly cycle of the liturgical seasons.  Light and darkness, drought and flood, feast and fast, death and rebirth – each of these contrasts plays its part in her poems, as she guides the reader into meditations on the mysteries of the church year.


About the Author

Cynthia Erlandson studied writing and literature at Wheaton College (Illinois).  She fell in love with the Book of Common Prayer and its form of worship when she discovered them in 1990.  Since then she has remained a devoted Prayer Book reader and user, and has been writing poetry to explore and celebrate the liturgical seasons of the Church calendar. She has had poems published in A Widening Light: Poems of the Incarnation (ed. Luci Shaw), and Touchstone (A Journal of Ecumenical Orthodoxy).  She resides near Detroit, Michigan with her husband and two children.