Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
The Lady on the mountain
“After mass, I stand in front of the Black Madonna and touch the sphere in her hand, pilgrims on either side of me. About 500 years ago, a man named Inigo, later calling himself Ignatius, laid down his sword in front of this statue after making a confession and praying through the night. He pledged his life to her.”
Friday Links
with Rowan Williams, Joseph Bottum, Joshua Hren of Jon Fosse, on Louise Kennedy, and Amy Wellborn
The Day a Student Accused Me of Gluttony
And placed me in circle three of Inferno.
Friday Links
with Clare Coffey, Matthew Milliner, Nick Ripatrazone on Laura Reece Hogan, Alex Sosler, Valerie Stivers on The Road to Stella Maris
The stones cry out
Karen Ullo writes about how, sometimes, no verbal signage is needed to recognize the violence of the past.
Friday Links
with Sarah Clarkson in Plough, National Sacred Art Exhibit contest, and Scott Beauchamp in Church Life Journal
ineffable... profligate... genuflect (?)
Amy Welborn meditates on an old note found in a second-hand book, considering how all the uncurated artifacts by which we are surrounded on a daily basis, even if they seem unconnected, weave threads of communion.
Friday Links
with Daniel Cooper, James Matthew Wilson on Michigan, W. H. Auden’s syllabus for English 135, Jackson Arn on The Sphere and Our Immersion Complex, plus preview of our next issue
Vintage Dappled Things: Select Reprints Now Available
Reprints of SS. Peter and Paul 2007, Mary, Queen of Angels 2007, and Advent 2007 are now available for purchase in our store.
What Does Christianity Offer?
Something a little different for our readers.
Friday Links
with John O’Callaghan at ND’s Fall Conference, Risking Enchantment: A Podcast with Rachel Sherlock, Rod Dreher & Diana Walsh Pasulka, Jack Butler in National Review
The Late Fragments of Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire’s concerns and obsessions are transposed into the impersonality of art. It is when we turn to his life and fragmentary works that we recognize the effort and talent his art required of him, and also the wealth of frailty that he accrued after a lifetime of investment is frustration, vice, and self-abuse.
Friday Links
with Catholic Literary Arts, Carla Galdo, Front Porch Republic, Joy Clarkson in Plough
Missions
“I pulled the car up outside my father’s house and smelled a wood fire from the indoor stove. By the time I got to the door he had already opened it. I stamped my feet as he said “no bother” and soon I was sitting across the from the wood stove and watching him gather together some papers to show me.”
Friday Links
with Luke Coppen, Dana Gioia, Mary Grace Mangano, First Things, Esquire, Paul Pastor, and more
Hermit Envy
“I’m reading this book about a monk…he prays and writes and reads books all day. You get the feeling that you are supposed to be in awe of this guy — his small living space — his simple meals — the fact that he does his own laundry and cooking. I’m rolling my eyes the whole time because I have a baby and a toddler and another baby on the way and I suffer from a deprivation of solitude and a deprivation of fellowship and a deprivation of getting out of the house. I won’t even get started on laundry and cooking.”
Friday Links
with Daniel McInerny, Amit Majmudar, Gerard Garrigan, James Matthew Wilson, and Ars Vivendi
Can all American literature be classified in two camps?
As Christopher Mari slides into middle age, he examines the literary Party of Hope and the Party of Memory. What does it mean to dwell on the past? What does it mean to live for the future?
Friday Links
with Jonathan Geltner on Jon Fosse, John Skillen, Luke Coppen interview Bishop Varden on a neglected virtue, a close read with Mark Halliday in Literary Matters.
Reading Ulysses in autumn
“After my summer experiences, I understood the tension in the hungry heart of the home-bound Ulysses.”