Two liturgical poems by Jill Harris of the Ephesus Group: an invocation for a Christmas ritual, and a thanksgiving drawing on the myth of the Last Supper as a possible means of grace today.
Jill Harris argues that ritual remains vital in a secular society and describes how New Zealand’s Ephesus Group writes its own liturgies for people who no longer accept theistic worship.
Jill Harris’s poem asks why humans, unlike other animals, fill the stars’ emptiness with meaning, giving voice to silence and declaring the something that is not, the nothing that is.
