Ryan Diaz 6/24/21 Ryan Diaz 6/24/21

Faith Without Awe Is Dead

Poetry trained me to see and to ask better questions. The questions of the cynic are overly simplistic. They are, in a sense, not even questions at all.

Jeffrey Essmann 6/22/21 Jeffrey Essmann 6/22/21

The Memory of His Saints

By the time I met her she probably knew more dead people than alive. Although it was only the two of us at the dining room table, the room was rich with ghosts. But it was more than just ghosts. In The Confessions St. Augustine talks about the power of memory: as a power of the soul and as a power that transcends the soul, since its deepest memory is the memory of God

Roseanne T. Sullivan 6/18/21 Roseanne T. Sullivan 6/18/21

Friday Links, June 18, 2021

+ A novel of Caryll Houselander, mystic practitioner of the art of suffering well, to be republished soon

+ Raymond Chandler on captivating readers with emotion and well-placed adjectives, and other quotes from his letters

+ Simone Weil on what it takes to write about imaginative evil without causing evil

+ Rabbi Shalom Carmy on creativity and serving God

+ A review of The Five Wounds, which, according to Amazon, was “Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Oprah Magazine, The Week, The Millions, and Electric Lit”

+ Joshua Hren writes about artful irony that “gives a damn.”

Joseph Lombardo 6/17/21 Joseph Lombardo 6/17/21

The Certainty of Things Not Seen: Powerlifting and Christianity

The ancient Greeks did more than just play sports. They wrote poems of famous sprinters, throwers, and wrestlers. They sacrificed to the Olympian gods so as to endow them the strength needed to win in both competition and at war. Followers of Plato saw physical training innately bound up in the idea of living a philosophically-rich life.

Denise Trull 6/15/21 Denise Trull 6/15/21

Marvelous, Medieval Margery

This is the way of lovers who grow to be like each other. They talk about the same things. They love the same things.

Roseanne T. Sullivan 6/11/21 Roseanne T. Sullivan 6/11/21

Friday Links, June 11, 2021

David Trull 6/10/21 David Trull 6/10/21

The happiness of faults

Imperfection gives birth to love, and love gives birth to beauty.

Father Michael Rennier 6/8/21 Father Michael Rennier 6/8/21

Benedictus makes beauty accessible

A new resource from Sophia Institute helps bring the beauty of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass to a growing number of interested seekers.

Roseanne T. Sullivan 6/3/21 Roseanne T. Sullivan 6/3/21

Friday Links, June 4, 2021

+ A late for Lent reflection about the Liguori Stations + Innovative religious drama podcasts + James Matthew Wilson poem featured at a dive bar/pizza place + Joshua Hren, Henry James & the misuse of beauty +

Bernardo Aparicio García 5/30/21 Bernardo Aparicio García 5/30/21

Welcome to DT’s New Home

“The change is not just a matter of aesthetics (not that there’s anything trivial about that!), but rather the most visible among a broader set of initiatives that mark a new milestone in the journal’s history…”