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Feeding of the Multitude, detail from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, via Wikimedia Commons Poetry and Humility Last weekend I was invited to speak at a small online conference for Catholic writers. The aim of the Good Discourse conference...
Rome has canceled all public Masses and it was shocking. Now dioceses across the US are following suite, or at least considering the same… (Since I wrote that my own Archdiocese of Boston has suspended all Masses for the time being.) Most of...
“Oh that you may suck fully of the milk of her comfort That you may nurse with delight at her abundant breasts! . . . As nurslings you shall be carried in her arms, and fondled in her lap; as a mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you; in...
“Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place? The man with clean hands and pure heart, who desires not worthless things. . .” Psalm 24: 3-4 The man with clean hands and pure heart. This has always been one of those...
Thoughts on the invitatory psalm. Every day the Liturgy of the Hours begins with the invitatory Psalm, a psalm that invites us into the day’s work of Praise. The default invitatory is Psalm 95, which begins with a literal invitation:...
Monday October 2 Anthony: math. Ben: math, explode the code, drawing Sophie: math, copywork, French translation (very excited she read three sentences with no help from me), Geography. Also Bella read to her from a book about birds and Sophie...
In Part 1, I looked briefly at the way Endo highlights Rodrigues’ failure to be a shepherd. I want to look more closely at that theme of the negligent shepherd because I think Endo develops it quite intentionally and with great subtlety. Endo...
It’s that time of year again, time to muster the books and plans for Lent with children. Time to look fondly on that box full of picture books for Advent and Christmas that I brought out just three months ago and packed away just last month...
As I’m reading Omeros, I’ve also been reading a bit about Derek Walcott, curious about his life an influences and such. This piece from Caribbean Beat has some interesting details. It seems he lived in Boston for some years, teaching at...
Sally Thomas, poet and homeschooling mom, recently recorded a podcast about teaching poetry, The Mason Jar #17: Sally Thomas on Poetry. It’s well worth a listen. I always love Sally’s thoughts about teaching and about poetry and...
