Friday Links
November 3, 2023
Catholic Literary Arts Marian Advent Prayer Contest
Carla Galdo on Delighting in the Great Possessions
Front Porch Republic Conference
Joy Clarkson in Plough: Through the Prism of Eternity
Catholic Literary Arts Marian Advent Prayer Contest
November 17 deadline: Catholic Literary Arts (CLA) encourages you to write Advent prayers to Mary, the Mother of God, for our Marian Advent Prayer Contest.
A prayer for this contest may be written in poetry or in prose. Each prayer has a word limit of 300 words, not including the title.
Each submission to the contest will be judged according to the effectiveness of the use of language, imagery, and Sacred Tradition.
This contest is part of CLA’s focused and ongoing efforts to encourage people to write new work which uses the rich traditions and images of the Catholic faith to bring God into today’s world through the originality of contemporary writing.
Carla Galdo on Delighting in the Great Possessions
While there can be a temptation to idealize the Amish while standing on the outside looking in, I’ve had enough chances to chat with Amish and Mennonite families to know that their communities suffer just like ours. While their agrarian lifestyles might be unencumbered by the distractions of flashy technology, their lives are not Edenic. Like us, they constantly struggle with questions of compromise or fidelity; they stumble as they try to live out what they believe in and value, and they suffer the inevitable tensions arising from human brokenness.
Front Porch Republic Conference
You can find all the videos from FPR’s recent conference at the link. From what I’ve seen so far, it will be well worth your time to watch these talks.
Joy Clarkson in Plough: Through the Prism of Eternity
Joy Clarkson writes on the music of Arvö Part:
Time and eternity; these are the two voices that sing to me on All Saints’ Day. On this day we know ourselves to be mortals, living through the changeability and anxiety of life. And yet, for a moment, the veil is pulled back. We see, or better yet hear, the voice of All the Saints and even the “angel music” singing us onward and giving us courage.
