G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “The reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too fierce, too fascinating and too practical in its demands.”*
In this 2021 finale podcast episode, we welcome back Fr. Steve Lantry, SJ for a special Advent/Christmas "Praying with Poetry" episode. Fr. Lantry explores with us how we can use poetry as a tool to enrich and deepen our prayer life. He guides us through three groups of poems (listed below) on the themes of Relationality, Paradox, and Challenge & Hope.
 
Poems cited:
The Hidden Singer by Wendell Berry from A Part, 1980, or, Collected Poems, pp.207-8
Love is the way messengers… by Rumi 1207-1273, from The Soul of Rumi, p. 33, translated by Coleman Barks & John Moyne
When school and mosque and minaret... by Rumi, 1207-1273, from A Year with Rumi, p.233
Those who think the heart is only in the chest... by Rumi, 1207-1274, from Rumi: Hidden Music, p. 54, translated by Azima Melita Kolin & Maryam Mafi
everywhere, everywhere by Charles Bukowski, from What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire, p. 94
One song by Rumi, 1207-1273,from A Year with Rumi, p. 214,rendered by Coleman Barks
When We See God by Edward Hirsch
Hope by Lisel Mueller, from Good Poems, p. 224, ed. by Garrison Keillor      
Sometimes  by Sheenagh Pugh, from Good Poems, p. 215, ed. by Garrison Keillor
We have fished all night… by Sr. Annette Moran, CSJ, from A Woman at the Well, p. 55, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet, St. Louis Province, 2009

*Lunacy and Letters by G.K. Chesterton, p. 60
 

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