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Saint of the Day: St. Raphael Guízar y Valencia

Poetry

Theresa Civantos Barber

The inspiring story of strangers filling a nightstand with poetry

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Fr. Michael Rennier

The story behind T.S. Eliot’s magnificent “Journey of the Magi”

MADONNA WITH CHILD

Fr. Michael Rennier

Is this the most beautiful sonnet ever written for Mary?

DISTANCE

Fr. Michael Rennier

Trusting God when He seems to be failing you

SAINT ALDHELM RIDDLES

Zelda Caldwell

Can you solve this medieval saint’s puzzling riddles?

Kathleen N. Hattrup

Poet of concentration camps inspires Pope Francis

PEACE

Tod Worner

Nothing and everything: Why poetry matters

ANGEL

Fr. Patrick Briscoe, OP

St. John Henry Newman gives this comforting vision of purgatory

The Hundredfold Songs for Our Lord

Cecilia Pigg

This book of poetry will help renew your prayer life

Louie Schwartzberg

J-P Mauro

This short film on gratitude is a perfect remedy for melancholy

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Zelda Caldwell

Listen to T.S. Eliot read his poem ‘Journey of the Magi’

BARN FLOOR

John Burger

This famous British poet gave up the thing dearest to him for Lent

SAINT NICHOLAS, REINDEERS, CHIMENY

J-P Mauro

It’s a mystery: Who penned “A Visit From St. Nicholas”?

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

John Burger

Rare Gerard Manley Hopkins manuscripts now in British government’s hands

ROBERT FROST

Tod Worner

What I learned from the “terrifying” Robert Frost

PARADISE LOST

Aleteia

Dartmouth professor offers free online course on “Paradise Lost”

NEIGHBORS

Tod Worner

Why good fences make good neighbors

EDGAR ALLEN POE

John Burger

The bells ringing from a Bronx church inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write these poems

DOG,HOUND,PAINTING

Zelda Caldwell

Get the chills as Richard Burton reads “The Hound of Heaven”

THE ANNUNCIATION

Sarah Robsdottir

Poetry: A Verse for the Annunciation

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