Prayer’s sister in seeking ‘pure attention’: Why Catholics shouldn’t give up on poetry

One night in September I gave a talk to an audience of one hundred in a parish of Saskatoon, Canada. The next day I went on to teach eighty of those parishioners on the same theme. My topic, given the numbers involved and their enthusiasm, might surprise you: it was poetry. People think that poetry The post Prayer’s sister in seeking ‘pure attention’: Why Catholics shouldn’t give up on poetry appeared first on Catholic Herald.

Sep 25, 2024 - 02:00
Prayer’s sister in seeking ‘pure attention’: Why Catholics shouldn’t give up on poetry
One night in September I gave a talk to an audience of one hundred in a parish of Saskatoon, Canada. The next day I went on to teach eighty of those parishioners on the same theme. My topic, given the numbers involved and their enthusiasm, might surprise you: it was poetry. People think that poetry The post Prayer’s sister in seeking ‘pure attention’: Why Catholics shouldn’t give up on poetry appeared first on Catholic Herald.

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