Im Juni hören Sie
anstelle der üblichen Einführung in das Evangelium Gedichte des britischen katholischen
Dichters Gerald Manley Hopkins. Zu diesem Sonntag hören Sie – in deutscher Übertragung
– das Gedicht Pied Beauty:
Glory be to God for dappled things For skies
of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that
swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold,
fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All
things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows
how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty
is past change: Praise him