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Veni Creator
Czeslaw Milosz
Thursday, May 14, 2020
Grace is everywhere
Georges Bernanos (from Diary of a Country Priest)
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
On the Rosary
Pope Leo XIII
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Night Prayer
Sally Read
Friday, May 8, 2020
Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
May Magnificat
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Fortitude
Joseph Piper
Monday, May 4, 2020
Prayer to St. Joseph For Workers
Friday, May 1, 2020
Sonnet 146
William Shakespeare
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
Hilaire Belloc
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Created for freedom
Pope St. John Paul II
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
John Donne
Friday, April 24, 2020
Life within the Church
Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Earning one’s bread
St. John Paul II (Centesimus Annus)
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
They also serve. . .
John Milton
Monday, April 20, 2020
Obedient to the Lord
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Friday, April 17, 2020
Canal Bank Walk
Patrick Kavanagh
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Born of the paschal mystery
Pope St. John Paul II
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
The microbe
Hilaire Belloc
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The wounded surgeon
T. S. Eliot
Thursday, April 9, 2020
The Martyr
Herman Melville
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Hymn to the Light
St. Ephrem the Syrian
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The Trial by Existence
Robert Frost
Monday, April 6, 2020
Reform, not revolution
Pope St. Paul VI
Friday, April 3, 2020
Witness to the Black Death
Giovanni Boccaccio
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
The Day of the Gifts
Paul Claudel
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
The media do nothing by themselves
Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Monday, March 30, 2020
The Indoors is Endless
Tomas Tranströmer
Friday, March 27, 2020
The meaning of suffering
Pope St. John Paul II
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Justice: the most terrible virtue
James V. Schall, S.J.
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Through the Water
James Matthew Wilson
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
‘My own heart let me more have pity on’
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, March 23, 2020
One cause of wickedness
St. John Henry Newman
Friday, March 20, 2020
Apostolic abstinence
St. John Henry Newman
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Prayer of Confidence to the Virgin
Charles Péguy
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Be not afraid
Pope St. John Paul II
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
March
Patrick Kavanagh
Monday, March 16, 2020
A Child Is Something Else Again
Yehuda Amichai
Friday, March 13, 2020
A Litany in Time of Plague
Thomas Nashe
Thursday, March 12, 2020
The Soul
Adam Zagajewski
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
‘Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend’
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, March 9, 2020
There must be law
Pope Leo XIII
Friday, March 6, 2020
Blameless in the sight of God
St. John Paul II
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Denial
George Herbert
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
The Convert
G.K. Chesterton
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
A flame
Adam Zagajewski
Friday, February 28, 2020
The God for me
John Stott
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Love bade me welcome
George Herbert
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
The fundamental things apply
St. John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
