This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Rita Baughman, OFS. […]
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Epiphany
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jenna Funkhouser. Epiphany Help me choose adoration over understanding when confronted with You. Simply for the act of bowing and offering sages and elders once wandered two years after a star. They must have felt how often we deride the pilgrimage of unknown destination the dream-directed the senseless offering […]
Learning from the Shepherds at Midnight Mass
"Adoration of the Shepherds" (detail) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This message, indeed, “cannot leave us indifferent.” Because it is true, “it changes everything.” There is something beautifully symbolic about the tradition of Midnight Mass. It shows that Christians are so eager for Christmas to begin that they want to start celebrating on the first moment of Christmas day. People who ordinarily never go out late at night and are […]
Nativity
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. […]
December by Candlelight
Every day we look forward to the gift of another dawn as the sun begins to peek through the curtain of the night to bring the vibrancy of color back to us yet again. It is a ritual of sorts, isn’t it? When the first blush of the dawn greets the dark cloak of the night sky and slowly but […]
Christmas Eve with Sandhill Cranes
This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Wendy Gist. […]
Lesson One in Prayer
In this timeless post from the archives, Dr. Peter Kreeft offers sure advice on developing your prayer life. Let’s get very, very basic and very, very practical about prayer. The single most important piece of advice I know about prayer is also the simplest: Just do it! How to do it is less important than just doing it. Less-than-perfect prayer is infinitely better […]
Watching and Waiting During Advent in Carmel
Advent in Carmel To experience Advent in Carmel is to enter into a rarified atmosphere that is filled to the brim with Carmel’s living legacy of Advent customs and observances. My first Advent in Carmel remains fresh in my memory today, still as vibrant and alive as when it happened. I feel at a loss, however, to write about it. […]
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