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...
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...
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 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....
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...
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,...
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.
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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,...
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...
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...