Catholic Poets You Should Know About   More Catholic Poets Related content: Mary, Send A New Spring | A Poem For Mary A Christmas Carol by St. Alphonsus Liguori An Act Of Consecration To The Holy Family The Prayer You Should Say When You Make A Visit To The Blessed Virgin Belatedly I loved thee, […]

May Is For Mary Every tree, every flower is a poem for thee,Every landscape is richer when thy shrines grace it;Dost thou watch the lamps that burn at thy grottoes?Dost thou hark to the chorus that swells through the ages?Dost thou hear the canticles that rise from thy children,Virgin of virgins and Mother of mothers,Royal […]

The Wise Men Step softly, under snow or rain,    To find the place where men can pray;The way is all so very plain    That we may lose the way.Oh, we have learnt to peer and pore    On tortured puzzles from our youth,We know all the labyrinthine lore,We are the three wise men of yore,    And we know all things […]

Something More There’s something moreBeyond that doorThan what meets the eyeTiny HostWe adore the mostOn the altar there abides Appears as breadChrist, risen from the dead,The ultimate sacrificeWho we abhor with our sinBy his mercy, He lets us inTo gaze upon Him, pure and white Body, Blood, Soul, DivinityExposèd here for you and me,Christ Jesus, […]

A Beautiful Sonnet Attributed To The Saints A beautiful sonnet has been attributed to many saints such as St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila: “I am not moved to love you, Lord, By promises of paradise; Nor does the hell that terrifies Move me to want to sin no more. You […]

 Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back. Related content: Mary, Send A New Spring | A Poem For Mary “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves…” Name A Catholic Church Song With The Word Love In It On The Day Of Love, Is Love Loved? […]

The House Of Christmas | G.K. Chesterton There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones […]

A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter.’And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,Lying down in the melting snow.There were times we regrettedThe summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,And the silken girls bringing sherbet.Then […]

Sometimes he preached hard like a boxer’s jaw.  But sometimes he preached soft as the underside of a kitten’s paw.  And sometimes he preached so joyful it shone through the sweetness of his smile.  But sometimes he preached so soulful it stung through the salt of his tears.  But hard or soft, joyful or soulful,  St. Francis […]

As many of us already know, Ireland votes today to decide whether to keep its relatively strict abortion laws- which currently make it very difficult to have an abortion –  to change them in favor of abortion on demand. There are so many well-documented reasons why abortion is wrong, why it does not help women, […]

Today we present the final installment of our God and the Gym series, a poetic reflection on rigorous fitness, physical suffering, Catholic spirituality, and the redemption of the Cross of Jesus Christ. God and the Gym: No Pain, No Gain Read parts 1 -3 of this series: God and the Gym (Part 1): The Rules […]

Known and beloved as the “Golden Sequence,” the Veni Sancte Spiritus is a beautiful, powerful prayer to the Holy Spirit that dates back to the thirteenth century. It is attributed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton. In 1570, this “sequence” (still prayed and chanted after the first reading Epistle and the Alleluia and […]

I was once walking around the outside of an incredibly beautiful cathedral; I walked around it twice just gazing in marvel upon the architecture, and trying to work out, or glimpse an understanding of what must have gone through the architect’s mind as he designed and built such an incredible structure. And to be honest […]

When a writer pens poetry he or she uses a linguistic paintbrush to form in the mind of the reader a place full of emotion that no other writing style can express. Human experiences are so deep and so powerful that our language does them no justice. What seems like nonsensical combinations of words, when […]

Today’s video is based on a poem written by a North American writer, Charles Bukowski called “Nirvana.” The poem tells the story of a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the “way to somewhere.” He is “cut loose from purpose” and lives a sort of aimless wandering. On the way, the bus […]