Tag: Devotion

Caryll Houselander “The Reed” (pg 359) The Virgin Mary as a hollow reed, ready for the Breath of God to make music in her. As

TOL “To Scatter Flowers” (pg 289) Language of flowers an ancient metaphor for transcendent ideas. TOL famously promises, “a shower of roses”. Written a year

Thomas Aquinas “Adoro Te Devote” (pg 90) Latin translated by Victorian Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ The faculty of hearing serves us, we have heard

Great 1/3 of the selections written by converts Shakespeare’s poetry has a beating heart of Faith. He like all of the poets elected was authentically

Catholic  -The Real Presence is more than a metaphor, but it does have similarities to it Bread & wine become (instead of being like and

Criteria for Selecting for Sally Admire her defining terms. A simple glossary is found at the back of the book. Ex/ I had a recent