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Benjamin Malachi Franklin (1882-1965)
You said you were looking for something good to read during Lent? Here's a new release, by a priest friend of mine.
Hear the Word of God
Taste of His Body and Blood
See how He loves you
This is the poem I wrote that won 2nd in our school art show
The conclusion is very Catholic, echoing as it does St. Thomas Aquinas' Contra Gentes I, c.3, p.3. Except that St. Thomas, being from Naples, probably would have suggested grabbing something other than a beer. :-)
Jefferson Bethke is back, and this time he's in a church :-) talking about sex, marriage, and fairytales.
A little spark of initiative and a little hard work... and a seminarian I lived in the same community with 2 years ago has a hot-selling book on Amazon. The stories he collected are really neat, and some are even penned by people with "Cardinal" (DiNardo) and "Archbishop" (Chaput) in front of their names.
New Evangelization ftw.
My sister is capable of writing 7 Christmas haikus and e-mailing them to me in rapid succession while preparing breakfast for her family and trying to get them out the door to church.
Multitasking was not invented by IBM.
Silent night of stars Angel song, kings and shepherds, All for a baby.
A world impatient Where is our mighty King? Save us from ourselves
He made everything Painted the sky with the stars Bed of cattle feed
God and man combined Save the world from our weakness Just a newborn boy
What did Joseph think Emmanuel in the hay Had he failed His God?
Holding her baby Did Mary know of His cross? Did she just kiss Him?
Gold for a king Frankincense for the divine Myrrh for a dead man
A really creative twist on "Letter 7" of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, put together by a friend of mine.
See what you think! The guardian angel is the best.
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Nobel Prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa, on World Youth Day
Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
Georges Bernanos (from The Diary of a Country Priest)
Pope Benedict at his best.
Art is capable of expressing, and of making visible, man's need to go beyond what he sees; it reveals his thirst and his search for the infinite. Indeed, it is like a door opened to the infinite, [opened] to a beauty and a truth beyond the every day. And a work of art can open the eyes of the mind and heart, urging us upward.
But there are artistic expressions that are true roads to God, the supreme Beauty -- indeed, they are a help [to us] in growing in our relationship with Him in prayer.
He discusses Bach, Bernstein, Claudel, Chagall, the Gothic and Romanesque, and more. If you have any sort of artistic bent, you simply have to read the rest. Just sayin'.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Flannery O’Connor (via mushfromnewsies)
They're very sensitive to beauty. They blog the stuff they do because it's beautiful.
Beauty is one of the classic paths to knowing God, of course, because He is Beauty itself and all the things he makes reflect his pure beauty somehow, though imperfectly.
Saint John of the Cross, classic:
God created all things with remarkable ease and brevity, and in them he left some trace of who he is, not only in giving all things being from nothing, but even by endowing them with innumerable graces and qualities, making them beautiful in a wonderful order and unfailing dependence on one another. All of this he did through his own Wisdom, the Word, his only begotten Son by whom he created them. (Canticle 5,1)
So go reblog the most beautiful thing on your dash right now...
Am I right on this?
Gerard Manley Hopkins, a good Catholic, a good poet, born today in 1844 (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
