Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Writing through sorrow
“I grabbed a blank journal and I began to write. I had always loved to write but had rarely found the time in recent years. Suddenly it seemed I could do nothing else.”
The miracle of Sister Wilhelmina
When it comes to Catholicism and Catholic culture, there are miracles to be found in all manner of places. The story of one author’s experience in Gower, Missouri.
Friday Links
Kelsey Wicks on Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, On Guantanamo Bay by Jennifer Bryson, “Exit Stage Right”: Maria Illich in Ekstasis Magazine, Michael Breidenbach in Church Life Journal, Gary Saul Morson on The Gulag Archipelago
The art of losing
On Elizabeth Bishop’s subtle art that she can’t quite seem to believe herself even though she wrote it; “Lose something every day. Accept the fluster / of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. / The art of losing isn’t hard to master.”
Friday Links
with Seth Wieck, Jess Sweeney, and A sonnet for Ascension Day from Malcolm Guite
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The benefits of leaving Ur
Thinking through the difficult question of whether to change parishes.
Friday Links
with Nick Ripatrazone, Stephen Schmalhofer at First Things , Joshua P. Hochschild on Caryll Houselander, Chris Beha, Ron Hansen, and Greg Wolfe at New York Encounter 2023, An interview with Benjamin Myers
The things we do for love
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly
Friday Links
with Collegium Institute, James Matthew Wilson, Christian Wiman & Gwendolyn Brooks, Tod Warner and Michael Stevens, Paul Pastor and Janille Stephens
Abiquiu
Amy Welborn on the mystery of doorways.
Confessing my Childhood: Carlos Eire’s Waiting for Snow in Havana
Join Collegium Institute and Dappled Things: A Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith for our online Global Catholic Literature Seminar on Carlos Eire’s Waiting for Snow in Havana.
Friday Links
with Wendy Hoashi-Erhardt in Plough; a new book from Plough: The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins; Anthony Esolen: Spring; and Megan Hunter-Kilmer on Servant of God Claire de Castelbajac
The Restoration of Romance
The poem makes no pretense of its intentions: “If I had three lives, I’d marry you in two.” Does the poet hold back this third life for one of self-absorption?
Friday Links
with Daniel Larson in Front Porch Republic, Christian Lorentzen, a review of Denys Turners’ Dante, The Theologian by Peter Blair and Sara Holston in Fare Foreward, Art, the Sacred, and the Common Good: Scala Foundation Conference 2023
Words enfleshed
Man prides himself on his abstractive ability, on his detachment from earth, on his noetic flight—until his bowels growl.
Friday Links
with B.D. McClay in Commonweal, Alan Jacobs in Hedgehog Review, Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire, Kevin Perrotta
Whatever You Do for the Least of My Brethren: Social Justice Starts at Home, and at Church
Neediness is a social sin in our society, treated as if it was leprosy. But Christians are supposed to give sacrificially to those in need.
Taxpayer-funded programs to help the needy would be much less needed if we all gave Christian love and care to the ones God has given us to love in our daily lives.
And shouldn't we be doing whatever we can to make sure nobody feels left out? Perhaps we should give sacrificially of our time and concern and friendship too?
The land of spices; something understood
Reading George Herbert’s The Temple with Michael Yost.
Friday Links
with Three poems for Good Friday from Plough, CUA Chamber Choir: Jan Dismas Zelenka – Miserere I, Black Catholic Messenger on Dom Chrysostom’s final vows, Mark Baker