From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet....
n the flowering memory of a mystic India singing birds on peepal* trees bring love's melody to me....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits. Today's poem is by Monty Williams, SJ...
On a tombstone in California we can read – "Buffy Anne Summers, 1981 to 2001. Beloved Sister, Devoted Friend. She saved the world – a Lot." Who is this Buffy? For seven seasons on TV Buffy the Vampire Slayer lived the saying - "Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one.. She is the Slayer." In 1949, Joseph Campbell wrote The Hero With A Thousand Faces in which he showed how thru the ages men and women have been Chosen and sent on quests that will change their lives. This notion of the chosen continues today in our popular culture....
In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Bilbo Baggins is chosen by Gandolf to help reclaim the stolen mountain home of a group of Dwarves He asks if Gandolf can promise him that he will come back. Gandolf replies "No, but if you do come back, you will not be the same." In 1949, Joseph Campbell wrote The Hero With A Thousand Faces in which he showed how thru the ages men and women have been Chosen and sent on quests that changed their lives and their worlds. This notion of the chosen plays an important role in our popular culture – especially in movies....
From time to time, over the next few months, as part of the "Our Culture" section, , igNation will post poetry written by Jesuits. Poems from Gerard Manley Hopkins and St. Robert Southwell will appear as well as poems by contemporary Jesuits....
We had the luxury of seeing Dialogues des Carmelites at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, a few weeks ago. In the heart of one of the more secular cities in North America a dramatic and theological portrayal of prison discipleship and martyrdom was being rendered. What was strikingly ironic was that the content, the vicarious sacrifice of the lives of these Carmelites nuns, was front and centre for a 21st century Western audience....
