Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
The Memory of Heaven
St. Augustine and Thoreau On Spiritual Awakening
Forty
Allison Cundiff thanks God for breaking apart her expectations for what a family should look like and what it means to welcome a little one into the world.
The Finery of Tradition
Denise Trull meditates on the importance of handing on a living tradition of sacred, decorative arts.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Brother Bruno describes what it’s like to live as a Benedictine.
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2021 J.F. Powers Prize!
Under the Cottonwoods
Spend a moment under the Cottonwoods with John T. Walsh talking about Hopkins.
It’s Not Just the Profanity, It’s the Writing
Cringy Flaws In “Father Stu”—(That Didn’t Stop ETWN’s Father Mark Mary From Loving the Movie a Lot)
Two Modes of Reading
Peter Moccia on how to read old books for understanding
Mother’s Day
Sheila M. Cronin meditates on gift and motherhood
All is Grace: Georges Bernanos’s Diary of a Country Priest
Children of God
Lessons from Julian of Norwich and Mister Rogers
A Paper Trail to the Stars
A mother devoted to poetry and victorian era novels re-reads science fiction through the eyes of her sons, discovering unknown realms of beauty.
Friday Links, April 22, 2022
+ “Creative writing and evangelizing” course—Word on Fire
+ Caryll Houselander review
+ Catholic Women Writers Series by CUA
+ “The Architect” video about the architect of St. Michael’s Norbertine Abbey
+ Article about the architect in the above video.
+ Poetry reading by two poets who are also a doctor and a lawyer.
Reading Crime and Punishment with Dorothy Day
Stanley Visnewski, a long-time Catholic Worker, said, “the only way [one] would ever understand the Catholic Worker was by reading Dostoevsky.”
Winners of the 2021 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction
No Other Eyes
Christian Gnosis in Paul Claudel’s The Spirit and the Water
Baptism
As the prayer moved from one scriptural water image to the next, I thought: I’m the one who told Isaac about the abyss before Creation; I’m the one who told him about the Parting of the Red Sea; and in a few weeks, as we move toward Holy Week, I’ll be the one who tells him about the water flowing from the side of Christ on the cross.
Friday Links, April 8, 2022
+ Two Retreats for Artists:
++ One retreat in book form by the future Pope Karol Wojtyla, and
++ One retreat for Lent via ZOOM via the Benedict XVI Institute, contemplating Michelangelo’s Three Pietas.
+ Donatello Sculpture Exhibit Asks: Is Donatello Actually the Best Sculptor Ever and Father of the Renaissance?
+ Can a Writer Create a Fictional Saint? (Podcast: Thomas Mirus Asks Joshua Hren).
+ Twenty-first Century Pointilist Art by a Catholic Illustrator.
Convalescence
Listen to a string quartet play a gorgeous piece of original music by Adam Rook
Towards a True and Better Vision
Wounded Idealism in Don Quixote & The Divine Comedy