The awkwardness of Mass
A commentary on the secret, first prayer at Mass
Poetry Submissions Re-Opened!
Dappled Things is once again accepting poetry submissions! Send us your verses bursting with awe and grandeur, or just make us laugh. Send us your sonnets, your haikus, your odes, your limericks, your free verse, but don't forget to dip your imagination in the baptismal font first. As always, we are … [Read More...]
The Family Miracles: Part 1
This is not a post about Catholic literature, but I want to use that topic, which is so frequently discussed on this blog, as a point of departure. It's almost impossible to talk about Catholic art and literature without someone bringing up the concept of the "sacramental imagination," the idea that … [Read More...]
Fifteen Years a Catholic
"And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall show thee." Tonight's Easter Vigil marks my fifteenth year as a Catholic, and approximately my seventeenth as a properly baptized Christian. On that … [Read More...]
Dorothy Day and the communion of beauty
There were tiny flower gardens and vegetable patches in the yards. Often there were rows of corn, stunted but still recognizable, a few tomato plants, and always the vegetables were bordered by flowers, often grateful marigolds, all sizes and shades with tier pungent odor. I collected odors in my … [Read More...]
On Poetic Immortality and the Resurrection
T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath were two poets who helped me fall in love with poetry when I was a teenager. I’m not alone in my early reverence for these two poets, who on the surface are quite dissimilar. In addition to being a poet, Plath was an ambitious young woman, cheery in photographs, who … [Read More...]
