Deep Down Things

Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.

On Kneeling
Heidie Senseman Heidie Senseman

On Kneeling

Here’s a story in one sentence: curious essayist-of-faith creeps into her local Catholic Student Center one Wednesday to scope out its viability as a public writing space, finds herself consumed by the way devotion and tradition swim within the buildings’ walls.

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Friday Links
Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Scratching Up the Sky by Ryan Daffurn; Joshua Hren reviews Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham; Alexander Raikin on A Pattern of Noncompliance; David K. Anderson on John Donne’s Devotions; Malcolm Guite on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets; “Apophatic” by Amit Majmudar in First Things; LuElla D’Amico on Love and Marriage in the Age of Austen

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Stains on the Altar Cloth
Deacon Matthew Newsome Deacon Matthew Newsome

Stains on the Altar Cloth

"From my vantage point behind the priest, I cannot help but notice the humanity of those hands... As those hands hold aloft the sacred host, I can’t help but notice the arthritic knuckles and smudges of ink left from signing checks and thank you notes. I shouldn’t be looking at his hands. I should keep my eyes on Jesus. But my attention, too, is weak and ordinary."

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Shemaiah Gonzalez; Dana Gioia on Becoming a Catholic Writer; Daylight Moon by Daniel Patrick Sheehan; Matt Kirby on the WCU poetry conference; George Hebert; Steven Delay on Contemplation; Fr. Michael on John Keats’ epitaph

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Girlatee by A. M. Juster; An appreciation from Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen on Dracula; Medieval roundup from Art & Theology; A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide; “love keeps the world” – a poem by John McMeans

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Phil Klay on Faith beyond the culture wars; Nadya Williams on Home Libraries; Gregory Hillis: A Burial at Gethsemani; Money and the Roots of Moral Evil; Catholic Culture Podcast with A.M. Juster; Carlos Eire on The Trouble with Levitation and Bilocation; Boris Dralyuk on Sergei Bongart Pays His Respects at Forest Lawn

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Cluny Journal; Joshua Hren on Houellebecq’s Annihilation; Patricia Snow on Taylor Swift; Rhonda Ortiz: Mama Needs a Hysterectomy; Echolocations: Thoughts on Poems by A.E Stallings; Jason Guriel: on Kay Ryan

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On languor
Daniel Fitzpatrick Daniel Fitzpatrick

On languor

Daniel Fitzpatrick discusses an under-examined theme in Brideshead Revisited - the languor. What are the conditions by which we might rediscover ourselves and come into to true rest and repose?

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Stephanie Howe Sullivan on The O is in the Air; Halloween issue: New Verse Review; Denise Trull on “A Quirky Little Book”; The Dark Side of Jane Austen with Julia Yost and Mark Bauerlein; Andrew Tolkmith on Kris Kristofferson

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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The 2024 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction; An Interview with DT’s Editor-in-Chief Rhonda Ortiz; James R. Wood on The Autonomy Trap; Marcel Proust’s View from the Prosecutor’s Side; God’s Little Flowers by Lindsay Schlegel; Culture of Life Poetry Award from Let Go the Goat

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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Catholic Culture Podcast with Ryan Wilson; Political Lessons From the Life of Blessed Emperor Karl; The Borough: A Journal of Poetry; Form and Freedom from Plough; Dennis Wilson Wise on “Tolkien Criticism Today, Revisited”; Valerie Stivers on Sally Rooney’s Crypto-Christian Love

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 Empty the bottle
Peter Bast Peter Bast

Empty the bottle

Peter Bast is determined to drink life down to the very last drop even if it means giving all he has away and filling the hollowed out shell of his past self with wine.

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Mary R. Finnegan Mary R. Finnegan

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with Four Loves at the Houston Ballet; Sam Kahn: “We are in a Writing Renaissance”; Interviews with James Matthew Wilson, Marly Youmans, & Paul Pastor; Rhina P. Espaillat Poetry Award; Jackson Arn on “The Anguish of Looking at a Monet”

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