Inspiration & Links
Do you have a religious poem that has touched your heart, deepened your faith, or moved you towards a closer walk with Jesus? Is there a web site that you have found to be particularly enriching to your spiritual development? Share these things with others in our community! Submit your favorite religious poem or web site link, and, if approved, we will post as many as time and space permit. May the poetry and links provided here nourish you on your faith journey.
Inspiration
Video / Film
Answering God’s Call. Watch the film: “Fishers of Men” here
Poetry
…from “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge & shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs –
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast & with ah! bright wings.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge & shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs –
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast & with ah! bright wings.
Links
Archdiocese of Boston Vatican Radio & other Catholic Links Catholic On Line American Catholic Catholic TV US Catholic Bishops The Pilot Guided prayer Liturgy of the Hours/Divine Office Real Prayer: A Short Virtual Retreat Catholic Culture & Liturgical calender Catholic Answers Forum Catholic Encyclopedia Free Catholic resources for CD’s and Books Saints Index Virtual Tour of the Holy LandSubmit Inspiration, Link or Comment
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