Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
“When You Pursue Me, World” by Rhina Espaillat and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Attention and the Screen Sick Soul, by Steven Knepper, in Church Life Journal
Stay Awake: Death, Catholicism, and Yvor Winters from James Matthew Wilson
Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel discuss Stevens’ “Sunday Morning” and Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur”
Joshua Hren in Front Porch Republic on Bernanos’ The Diary of a Country Priest
How Meter Is the Memory of Poetry
The deep silence of Mnemosyne is, like the breaths and heartbeats that keep us alive, ever-present, yet always in motion.
Friday Links
Joshua Hren reviews Cormac McCarthy’s two new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris
Josh Nadeau on the Makers & Mystics podcast
Sarah Cortez interviews Phil Klay
Jenn Frey and Dana Gioia discuss Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal
A new play from J.C. Scharl
The Lost Women
What’s in a name?
Denise Trull on the adventure and possibility inherent in poetic naming
Friday Links
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies
Collegium Institute and Dappled Things present The Lost Women
Paul Pastor on J.V. Cunningham
Living Outside of Time, Gary Saul Morson in NYRB, on Eugene Vodolazkin
How Sigrid Undset went from Secretary to Nobel Prize Winner
Music for the Epiphany, Mater Ora Filium & Where is This Stupendous Stranger
A poem from the DT Archives, “A Roadside Epiphany” by Don Russ
What Rotimi Taught Me
Christopher Mari on the nearness of death
Friday Links
DT’s Explosive Growth in 2022 & Plans for Next Year
Catholic literature was supposed to be dead. So it seemed in 2005 when Dappled Things launched its first issue. But our faith has a knack for resurrection, and now what seems dead is that narrative of decline.
“Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,” illustrated with notes, by James Tissot
In this illustration for the lavishly produced Life of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, James Tissot places the episode of Jesus’ birth in one of the caves in the mountains in and around Bethlehem, a departure from visual tradition, which often locates the Nativity in a stable.
Although Tissot spurned the art-historical convention of the halo in his depictions of the Holy Family and the apostles, he endows the infant Christ with a glow that illuminates the face of his adoring mother, who clasps her hands in prayerful reverence.
December 24: Happy Birthday Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia, distinguished poet, critic, cultural observer, and Catholic, was born Christmas Eve in 1950. In the midst of an extraordinary career in which he has achieved widespread recognition and active sales of his poetry collections, a rare achievement for living poets, he continues to work towards another kind of success—seeking to bring not only poetry (which is much neglected these days) but also the work of fine Catholic writers back into the mainstream culture.
An Urgent Appeal for Your Help
O Magnum Mysterium, everyday objects, and the nativity
The inspiration for Morten Lauridsen’s masterwork, the Christmas motet O Magnum Mysterium.
“Saint Joseph seeks a lodging at Bethlehem” illustrated, with notes by James Tissot
Joseph Seeks a Lodging at Bethlehem by James Tissot
Friday Links
December 23, 2022
Fourth week of Advent
“Let your heart be the manger that welcomes the holy Stranger”
+A.M. Juster’s 2022 book recommendations on the Claremont Review of Books and John Wilson’s A Bookish Christmas is over at First Things
+Christianity Today’s 2023 Book Awards
+Mary Consoles Eve, interview by Joy Clarkson with Sr. Grace Remington
+ Chesterton Carol
+O Antiphons
War and Peace, and Advent
A character from Tolstoy’s classic recalls the beauty of the Incarnation.
O Antiphons in O Come, O Come Emmanuel
O antiphons for December 17 through 23
Friday Links Are Back! 12/16/22
+”The Hymn of Juan Diego,” a poem for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by James Matthew Wilson
+A new verse translation of St Ambrose’s Advent Hymn by E.J. Hutchinson in First Things
+Wiseblood Books 2023 anticipated publications and a Christmas discount
Hillsdale College Chapel Choir singing O Little Town of Bethlehem
+Paul Pastor’s challenge to Christian writers from Ekstasis
+The Merry Beggars: An Audio Advent Calendar recording of A Christmas Carol
Though Advent is a penitential season, the Church, in her wisdom, dapples these four weeks of waiting with feast days. Hopefully, on the first major feast of the season, Saint Nicholas’ Day, you awoke to find your shoes overflowing with chocolates. If not, this week’s Friday Links should fill your heart with delight and an ever growing gratitude for the beauties of this world.
Emulating Divine Creation
Philip Guston’s Third Act
Europe in These Times: Los Reyes Católicos
Exploring the churches of Granada with Kevin Duffy