LAKE JAMES
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Blessed George Herbert, Priest George Herbert is famous for his poems but also for his prose, "A Priest in the Temple: or The County Parson." His biographer, Izaak Walton, portrayed him as being a model of the saintly parish priest. Herbert himself described his poems as "a picture of the many spiritual conflicts which have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could submit mine to the will of Jesus my Master; in whose service I have found perfect freedom." Born in 1593, a member of an ancient
family, he was a cousin of the Earl of Pembroke, and an acquaintance of King
James I and Prince (later king) Charles, but because In 1626, he was ordained to the Priesthood and, in 1630, was made Rector of the parishes of Fugglestone and Bemerton where he served for three years until his untimely death at the age of 40. Two of his poems became well-known hymns: "Teach me, my God and King," and "Let all the world in every corner sing." Izaak Walton wrote of him that many of Herbert's parishioners "let their plow rest when their priest's church bell rang to prayers so that they might offer their prayers with his." Collect for the Feast of Blessed George Herbert Our God and King, you called your servant George Herbert from the pursuit of worldly honors to be a pastor of souls, a poet, and an priest in your temple: Give us grace, we pray, joyfully to perform the tasks you give us to do, knowing that nothing is menial or common when it is done for your sake; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. [based on material in "Lesser Feasts and Fasts"] ------------------------------------ To learn more about Blessed George Herbert from Wikipedia.org, click here.
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of his friendship with the Bishop of Lincoln, who was out of favor with King
Charles, any hopes he may have had to be a courtier were shattered.