Pre-grief is not the absence of hope. Somehow, we can mourn what is passing away even while we work to preserve it.

We have found at the Catholic Book Club that different genres and authors inspire different readers and broad variations in discussion, another reason to mix it up a bit in terms of genres and styles. Our two most recent selections have been no exception.

Well, I am shy of miracles and shy of the talk of miracles.

After the word is forgotten and discovered, and streamed until it’s nothing, she is not here.

it has / become the norm / to claim your side / just scored.

The “Catholic sacramental perspective,” as Mariani terms it, urges the poet to recognize in even “the meanest thing” some glimmer “of inestimable worth,” some sign of the Creator.