110 years after the Easter Rising, Ireland’s history and literature of resistance still inspire.
Poetry
Posted inThe Good Word
Dying like Christ: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
A Homily for Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inThe Good Word
The night before he died, Christ brought something new into the world
A Homily for Holy Thursday, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inArts & Culture
Finding a Lenten vulnerability in Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’
I inherited many books from my older brothers—esoteric books from the 1970s on running and weightlifting, and Pietro di Donato’s classic novel Christ in Concrete, about an Italian immigrant family of laborers shattered by the death of their patriarch. But my favorite is Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke. It is a […]
Posted inIdeas
Dylan Thomas was a difficult person. But ‘Fern Hill’ is a perfect poem.
To understand this poem, you don’t need biography. Your own personal understanding of the loss of innocence and the pain of mortality serve just as well.
Posted inPoetry
Our Epiphany
Because they left, they could arrive.
Because they searched, they could find.
Because they wandered, they discovered.
Posted inIdeas
My forty years of friendship with Thomas Merton
Can you be friends with a person who never knew you even existed? If the answer to these questions is yes, then I am friends with Thomas Merton.
