The most beautiful reward of life
"Hymn to Virtue" by Aristotle and "A National Hymn" by Thornton B. Penfield
Poetry for Pilgrims, Cultivating Catholic Imaginations
You are invited to pray with poetry here... "Cultivating Catholic Imaginations" engages and equips those who want to deepen their prayer life and relationship with God through the beauty of poetry and the arts.
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When something's gotta give...
"Part for the Whole" and "Glass" by Robert Francis
Waking to birdsong and the wind wraith's fingers
"Wind Wraith" by Sister M. Madeleva and "The Aim was Song" by Robert Frost
Belated birthdays and becoming Americans we can be proud of
"The Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key and "America the Beautiful" by Katherine Lee Bates
The invitation into unknown waters
"Crossing the Bar" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I see the long procession still passing to and fro"
"The Bridge" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's raining... it's pouring... and "Cathedrals" are looming
10 poems about rain to choose from, and "A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree" by Emily Dickinson
"Speak to us of Children..."
"On Children" by Kahlil Gibran
An adventure in translations...
Lauda Sion by St. Thomas Aquinas, for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi
At the Gate of Dawn, an invitation
"Our Lady of the Dawn" by Mary E. Mannix
The Soul's Stance before the Gift of God
Solemnity of Pentecost: "Holy Spirit, Truth Divine" by Samuel Longfellow
Matched pairs: sun and moon, suffering and joy
"Madonna: for a Picture" and "Matched Pair" by William Coyne
Where God Needs, and Leads
"The 23rd Psalm" by George Herbert
Behold, He Makes All Things New
"Christ, for thee a wreath adorning" by St. Gregory Nazianzen and "When on the cruel cross" (both translated by John Brownlie)
Hope lives under matted leaves, mingled with worms
"Hail! the Holy Day of Days" by John W. Hewitt and "Peace" by George Herbert
On the Glorious Wounds
Via Lucis (Stations of Light) and "Of Wounds" by Sister M. Madeleva, CSC
The (new) Gardener's Invitation
"April Desire" by Louise Imogene Guiney and "Lux et Tenebris" by Evelyn Underhill
"With Many Tears I Went in Search of Him"
14th Station: "Jesus is Laid in the Tomb" by Tim Bete and "Lost and Found" by George MacDonald
The Mother Holds Her Son Once More
13th Station: "Jesus' Body is Removed from the Cross" by Tim Bete and "A Song Before Grief" by Rose Hawthorne Lathrup
My God, My God, Why Have You Abandoned Me?
Holy Week: "Throned Upon the Awe-full Tree" by John Ellerton and "He is the Lonely Greatness of the World" by Madeline Caron Rock