Friday Links
St. Catherine of Siena
Small Talk is Not Small: Wendy Hoashi-Erhardt in Plough
A new book from Plough: The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anthony Esolen: Spring
Megan Hunter-Kilmer: Servant of God Claire de Castelbajac: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
Small Talk is Not Small: Wendy Hoashi-Erhardt in Plough
“Small talk seemed to me nothing more than the listless chatter of small minds.” Or so Wendy Erhardt thought. Then she realized that “small talk…is an unobtrusive act of welcome. It harnesses mundane moments to create a context of awareness and civility; in short, a place to love our neighbor in real time.” This is a lovely essay about small talk as a kind of “hospitality.”
New book from Plough: The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins
This lovely book is available as free a download. Thank you, Plough!
Anthony Esolen on Spring
Some more GMH from Anthony Esolen over at his excellent Substack, Words and Music. In this essay Esolen writes of the season and the poem: “The spring calls us to be children again, and the poet prays to Christ that he will take care to win the young boys and girls still in the springtime of their lives.”
Megan Hunter-Kilmer: Servant of God Claire de Castelbajac: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
Please do read this wonderful essay about “an ordinary young woman who was given the strength to repent from her ordinary sin, to embrace an ordinary conversion, and to live an ordinary life of holiness.”
