The Divine Office provides some wonderful poems in place of hymns. I love the
Holy Sonnets of John Donne - phrases like "batter my heart, three-personed God....for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste except you ravish me....my devout fits come and go away like a fantastic ague....those are my best days when I shake with fear".
And sometimes a concluding prayer strikes you from the blue. Today's was particularly beautiful:
Almighty God, grant that we who are constan...
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