Elegy For Jane (My Student, thrown by a horse) – Theodore Roethke
Text taken from here. Elegy for Jane (My student, thrown by a horse) I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils; And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;…
Category: words
#GoodFriday – reflections on the #SevenLastWords by Robert Hugh Benson
I have posted Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, along with Haydn’s Seven Last Words Here is the Introduction “Father, forgive them,…
“I thirst”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE FIFTH WORD I thirst. Our Lord continues to reveal His own condition, since He, after all, is the key to all…
“My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE FOURTH WORD My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Our Blessed Lord in the revelation He makes from the…
“Amen I say to thee, to-day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise”
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE SECOND WORD Amen I say to thee, to-day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise. Our Divine Lord, in this Second…
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”
https://youtu.be/kMbGWPaXX8Y From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s reflections on the Seven Last Words: Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. In previous considerations we have studied the Life…
Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross: Introduction to reflections by R H Benson
For Good Friday, I am posting reflections by Robert Hugh Benson, the son of an (Anglican) Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and prolific writer before his early…
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