Holy Week 2020 - George Herbert

Peter has always enjoyed the poetry of George Herbert, and during Holy Week last year used his poems as we said Morning Prayer at St Matthew’s and Compline at St Edmund’s, and read the Passion Narrative, the description of Jesus’ final week. Here is the material again, in the hope it might be useful as we pray at home this year. You could easily link this with Morning or Evening Prayer from the leaflet we provided, or from the Church of England app or website, or even from the Prayer Book!

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George Herbert was born in Montgomery, Wales on 3 April 1593. He came from a wealthy family, was tutored at home, then went to Westminster School and to Trinity College Cambridge. He was a Fellow of the College by 1614, rose to the heights of University Orator (the man whose job it was to be the University's spokesmen) and also an MP. After only a few years he left it all and was ordained in 1625 or 1626. He became Prebendary of Leighton Bromswold in Huntingdonshire, then, in 1630, moved to Bemerton near Salisbury. He died there on 1 March 1633. We remember him as priest, poet and musician.