CMP Review 2025-04-06

In Charlotte Mason’s poem, she describes how the disciples saw, “upon the Master’s countenance, a change.” Gone was “the aspect sweet they knew”; in its place “a prophet’s gaze, far-seeing, pained, constrained.”

What follows in the poem is a change in Mason’s countenance as well. She takes us to the heart of Christ’s words of fire and we feel the heat.

J. R. Dummelow said of Luke 12:49 that “The Prince of Peace comes to bring strife and bloodshed, fire and sword, into the world, because only through war can lasting peace be attained. Some, however, understand by fire, the fire of Christian love.”

Is it the fire of judgment or the fire of love? Or are the two linked in some paradoxical way? Read or listen to Charlotte Mason’s poem and enter the mystery. Find it here.

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🖼️: Pentecost by P. Solomon Raj