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    Triduum Poems

    Sunsong (Gethsemane prayer, Holy Thursday) sunlight pours upon the field in early autumn. wheat grows thin, nourishing the wind. soft-spoken daffodils wait for the tide, sheltered only by a song. now shall...
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    We Are Such a Mix

    Each year at the start of Lent, I notice again my need for God’s grace to bring me back from all the ways I’ve...
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    Days Hazed, When Such Winter Chill, and Light Too Bright to Behold

    Days Hazed days hazed, holding their knowing, known in hope only, open too slowly, while these days filled too full quit too quickly, knowing not yet caught. yet hazed days are wonders working, slowly...
    "The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt" by Nicolas Enriquez - via The Metropolitan Museum of Art - licensed under CC0 1.0

    The Return Home

    That Christmas, when we were in love, he gave me a watercolor he’d done some years before of the Holy Family’s return from Egypt....
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    Three Poems

    Jubilee You’ve multiplied the many fruits of every gift You’ve given me: music, service, intellect, with love-begetting-love multiplied most; and now like a plant in a pot You ask me to rest; and looking...
    Vaux Passional - "The Incredulity of Thomas, Who Places His Finger in the Wound" - public domain

    This Is Your Easter, Thomas

    The moniker “doubting Thomas” has always bothered me. Thomas did, after all, have great faith, enough faith to give up everything he knew—family, friends,...
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    As Kingfishers Catch Fire (Song)

    In honor of National Poetry Month, enjoy this musical rendition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” by the Euphonage. If you’re receiving this...
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    How to Enter the New Year

    If you’re reading this, you lived to see the new year. This is no small matter! Your life makes a difference in the universe,...
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    Journey of the Magi

    T. S. Eliot reads his poem “Journey of the Magi” in the audio track of today’s featured video. For those of you who have...
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    I Saw You Today

    On Sundays we ask our Ignatian Spirituality Facebook community where they have found God during the week. Gary Thomas shares his response: As I rode...

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