The Harp of the Holy Spirit In the course of trying to remember a quote from Saint Ephrem (or Ephraim or Ephraem) that I read twenty years ago I surfed a lot of sites about Saint Ephrem. Top quote about him? "the greatest poet of the patristic age ... perhaps, the only theologian-poet to rank [...]
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Dante and the Annunciation again
Here is Saint Bernard encouraging Dante to look at Mary, the Queen of Heaven. Look now into the face that unto Christ Hath most resemblance; for its brightness only Is able to prepare thee to see Christ.” On her did I behold so great a gladness Rain down, borne onward in the holy minds Created through that altitude to [...]
My new obsession
For the last year I have been writing a book about Dante and the Divine Comedy. I am not an expert and that is the point of the book. I tried to read the Divine Comedy many years ago and got stuck. This time around I kept working on it until I understood how to [...]
Locked out
Just to say that I've been locked out of this site for months because my email was blacklisted. And how do you find out about something like that? Since they aren't emailing you ??? ... but I finally got through to WordPress and the problem is fixed. Of course it doesn't help that I have [...]
Making mistakes/owning mistakes
A few weeks ago my husband and I were out driving on a street with two lanes each way. At a major intersection we were in the left lane but planning to go straight and we were behind two other cars also going straight. In the right lane next to us was a car with [...]
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