That’s not a poem specifically about Easter. Phyllis McGinley wrote it to celebrate attending church services on a fine spring day. The title is “Sunday Psalm” and it grows from a paraphrase of verse ...
Tomorrow being Easter, “Neighbors” today is privileged to give you an Easter poem written by Sandy Carlson, who with her husband, Dick Carlson, lives in Williams Bay, Wis., after moving there from ...
Prince Charles reads “God’s Grandeur” by Jesuit Father Gerard Manley Hopkins for the Easter Meditation of Stonyhurst College in England. (Credit: Clarence House/Twitter.) Listen LEICESTER, United ...
"Sometimes we find that the best-loved Gospel stories become so familiar that we can no longer respond to them," says Rosenthal (The Poets' Jesus). "Poetry's special gift is to cast a fresh eye on the ...
FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...
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