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by bcadmin | Nov 23, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Maria Grace De Lallo. Expectation Do you think of those late autumn days, When the world was dust and faded gold, And you, in sunlight, outside your door, The sun of heaven, warm on your face, Th…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 16, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Johanna Caton, O.S.B. Savor A long and busy kitchen day was ending and the hot room redolent with fragrant herbs and wine and apple tart, and onion laced with butter–ready for enfolding heart wit…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Fr. Robert Phelps, O.F.M. Cap. James Dying His red-fisted Irish face, a slight peeling…the dryness of his forehead, James silently receives oil from the priest. He is ninety-nine, and death for h…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 2, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Rose Anna Higashi. All Souls’ Day, Los Gatos, California Light-jewels fall through lacy evergreens As the golden breeze carries a dozen leaves To their final place Beneath the generous oak …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | areopagus, human dignity, In the Spotlight, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, prayer life, Scripture, St. Paul | 0 |
The Most Poetic Line in Any Language There is a verse in Scripture that speaks about who we are as human beings. It may not be overstating the point to suggest that it is the single best explanation of the meaning of human existence. The verse is from …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. A Woman from the Parish A woman from the parish died. I knew her from the 5 o’clock. She had a child who whined and cried And two who blithely ran amok. I prayed for patience eve…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 19, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Johanna Caton, O.S.B.. I remember the way I, five, first stood, one hand on the barre, sand between my toes, nose grainy as old photos, nails filthy but fingers formed just so, breathing hiccups,…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Nicholas Bellacicco. To Carry a Frog God is holding you in the palm of His hand. Yet, you see yourself as sand slipping through His fingers. God is holding you like a child carrying a frog. Seali…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 5, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Sheila Murray-Nellis. How St. Francis Sings Teach always and if necessary use words; then he leapt over Italian meadows brown cloak flapping like bird wings. Hold life in a cup of light fellow cr…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 28, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Fr. Robert Phelps, O.F.M. Cap. Christ at the Last Supper Like the hub of a wheel, around which was all the movement of the Seder he sat; the banter, the tinkle of cups, the sound of movement, the…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Mary Lee. Shelter John 12:3; 20:27 -28 Shelter in your presence, bathing your feet. I pour the most fragrant whole bottle of me; that perfume of love fills the house of my life. I find shelter In…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | catholic poetry, Catholic Poetry Room, Featured, General, In the Spotlight, News | 0 |
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. Psalm 19 (after Addison’s The Spacious Firmament on High) As Saturn with its icy rings A bright celestial whimsy brings To matter elsewise dark and deep And all the orbs their or…
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