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Malcolm Guite’s reflections and sonnets for Holy Week: Wednesday

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05 April 2023

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From Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday, Malcolm Guite shares a sequence of sonnets for Holy Week. They are taken from his collection, Sounding the Seasons (Canterbury Press).

Today, he reflects on and reads his sonnet, “The anointing at Bethany.”

The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and writes the weekly Poet’s Corner column for the Church Times.

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