Tagged: Poetry

Universal King

This year, just last month, we commemorated the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparition in Fatima. Many dwelt on the significance that the Mother of God’s message, accompanied by a spectacular miracle, still has...

Said Hanrahan

Cattle Facts provides what is perhaps the most famous poem of John O’Brien’s Around the Boree Log. Said Hanrahan succinctly characterises the eternal pessimists of this world in a 1920s rural Australian setting. Don’t...

Yielding Place to the New

Today we invite you to take some moments to first enjoy a country lad’s letter of appreciation as the now grown-up man recalls how good an experience it was for him to be placed...

The Sisters

Dena Hunt from The Ink Desk Blog in Faith and Fireflies meditates on a childhood memory and draws deep parallels about which many today would do well to stop and think.  “We’d hear that...

The Holy Cross

Tomorrow, May 4th, is the remembrance of the discovery of the Holy Cross by St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great. This pious woman discovered the Cross of Our Lord buried near Jerusalem in...

H is for Home

Distributivism, Distributism, Agrarianism, Socialism, Capitalism: do you ever wish there was a simpler way to break all the “isms” down into a more comprehensible format than trying to wade through that daunting article filled...

“Why are Your Robes Red?”

The First Sunday of Lent from Catholic Harbor of Faith and Morals provides several resources of meditation on the Gospel of the first of the Sundays in Lent as we launch into the first...

Death Shall be No More

John Horvat II makes some sobering observations in his article, The Earthquake That Destroyed More Than the Basilica of St. Benedict from Return to Order.  “Over the last fifty years, the Benedictine order has...

Literature and Secret Pride

This week we begin with a bit of classic poetry: The Art of Manliness presents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the post Manvotional: The Ladder of St. Augustine. “Standing on what too long we bore...