The Triptych of the Morning Star

 

Dedicated to Fr Robert Thompson,

in the year of the 25^th anniversary of their Ordination as Priest


Triptych I: East

Gleaming,
Glowing,
in Glory,
Glistening Jewels,
in the East.

Royal
wrapped in Blue,
Crimson
and Purple.

Triptych II: Citations

Footnote No I,
For Footnotes matter.

II Chronicles,
Chapter Three,
Verse Fourteen[i].

 “And Solomon

made the curtain of

blue and purple and

crimson fabrics and

fine linen and

worked cherubim into it”.

 

Footnote No II,

For Footnotes open everlasting doors

 

Mark,

Chapter Fifteen,

Verse Thirty-Eight[ii].

 

“And the curtain of the temple was torn in two,

from top to bottom”.

 

Triptych III: The Morning Star

Of the Fabrics
and Fine Linen of
King Solomon's
Wisdom,
Woven with the
Wings of the Cherubim,
with The Venerable Bede[iii],

the Morning Star[iv] Rises.

 

Footnote No V

For there are Footnotes in Eternity:

 

“Christ is the Morning Star who,

when the night of this world is past,

brings to his saints the promise of the light of life,

and opens everlasting day”[v].

 

In our Hearts,

anew,

knowing the place for the first time[vi],

birthing beauty,

in the East.


Copyright
Lottie E. Allen

The Venerable Bede
Saturday 25^th May
In the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Four


Footnotes

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[i] “And Solomon made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen and worked cherubim into it”:  II Chronicles, Chapter Three, Verse Fourteen (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

 [ii] “And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom”. Mark, Chapter Fifteen, Verse Thirty-Eight (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

[iii] The Venerable Bede, Monk at Jarrow, Scholar, Historian, 735.

 [iv] “To the one who conquers I will also give the morning star”: Revelation, Chapter Two, Verse Twenty-Eight (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition).

 [v] In his Commentary of the Book of Revelation, Bede wrote “Christ is the Morning Star who, when the night of this world is past, brings to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day”. Bede, V. (2015) The Explanation of the Apocalypse (710-716). Aeterna Press.

[vi] “And know the place for the first time”. Four Quartets. Little Gidding - 1942. Eliot, T.S. (1974) Collected Poems 1909 - 1962. Faber and Faber Limited.