Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest
Here are excerpts from Blog Of A City Priest’s reflection on Palm Sunday from last year: Long Gospel, huh? Why does the Church have to have all this lengthy pageantry?…
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“The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars”, Melody S Gee
Yesterday’s Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets was “The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars” About the Poem, Melody S Gee comments: “This is part of The Convert, a series…
Ascension Day: a poem
Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension, so this is late. I guess it is still May 30th in California and points West (up to the International Date Line) though:…
A poem for Palm Sunday – “The Donkey”, G K Chesterton
I find Chesterton a somewhat mixed bag , and that applies to his poetry also, but this has always moved me deeply, and is all the more effective for concealing…
For Christmas – Tonos play ‘Rey, a quien reyes adoran’
Here is the duo Tonos – singer Roisin O’Grady and guitarist/lutenist Eamon Sweeney (no relation) playing the Spanish song ‘Rey, a quien reyes adoran’ – “King Who Kings Adore”
For Christmas Eve: Mitch Miller & the Gang, We Three Kings of Orient Are
Mitch Miller supposedly incarnated the worst of 1950s popular music, nearly destroying Sinatra with novelty numbers and generally inflicting cliché upon cliché that would be blown away in the 1960s.…
An Italian poem of World War I – “Last Rite”, Clemente Rebora
The current TLS has a piece by NS Thompson on Italian poets of the First World War, along with translations by Thompson of some of their works. Futurism, which glorified…
Séamus Sweeney 