#AshWednesday with Evelyn Waugh in New Orleans, 1949
Via the Evelyn Waugh Society online I came across this from Waugh in 1949. It captures the falseness of the dichotomy betweent the fleshy pleasure of Mardi Gras and the…
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T.S. Eliot: Ash Wednesday
Originally posted on The Broken Towers:
Today is Ash Wednesday and although I did not want to provide a reading of a long poem for some time, I thought not…
From “Forgiveness”, by Herbert McCabe
From the sermon Forgiveness by Herbert McCabe: It is very odd that people should think that when we do good God will reward us and when we do evil he…
“Teach us to care and not to care/ Teach us to sit still.” Ash Wednesday
An Ash Wednesday I’ll Never Forget: Chesterton did not actually say that those of us who don’t believe in God will believe in anything, but he ought to have because…
“Whether our work leads to victory becomes irrelevant to us” Jeffrey Bilbro on the happy loser
I am not (yet) familiar with the work of Wendell Berry, though I think I am going to make it my business to be. Berry is the inspiration of this wonderful…
Séamus Sweeney 