"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."

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

and became the prototype for the Catholic Imagination Conference

New Englander Angela Beatrice recommends three books for autumn.

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