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Scars and Make Me a Mirror

Poetry Mary Ellen Smajo

Scars Some wounds take a long time to heal; some wounds never heal; sometimes there are scars, perpetual evidence of a love well-lived. You still have the wounds, evidence of...

Sunsong (Gethsemane prayer, Holy Thursday) sunlight pours upon the field in early autumn. wheat grows thin, nourishing the wind. soft-spoken daffodils wait for the tide, sheltered only by a song. now shall...

We Are Such a Mix

Poetry Mary Ellen Smajo

Each year at the start of Lent, I notice again my need for God’s grace to bring me back from all the ways I’ve...

Days Hazed, When Such Winter Chill, and Light Too Bright to Behold

Poetry Mary Ellen Smajo

Days Hazed days hazed, holding their knowing, known in hope only, open too slowly, while these days filled too full quit too quickly, knowing not yet caught. yet hazed days are wonders working, slowly...

The Return Home

Poetry Mary Ellen Smajo

That Christmas, when we were in love, he gave me a watercolor he’d done some years before of the Holy Family’s return from Egypt....

Three Poems

Poetry Mary Ellen Smajo

Jubilee You’ve multiplied the many fruits of every gift You’ve given me: music, service, intellect, with love-begetting-love multiplied most; and now like a plant in a pot You ask me to rest; and looking...

This Is Your Easter, Thomas

Poetry Rebecca Ruiz

The moniker “doubting Thomas” has always bothered me. Thomas did, after all, have great faith, enough faith to give up everything he knew—family, friends,...

As Kingfishers Catch Fire (Song)

Poetry dotMagis Editor

In honor of National Poetry Month, enjoy this musical rendition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” by the Euphonage. If you’re receiving this...

Journey of the Magi

Poetry dotMagis Editor

T. S. Eliot reads his poem “Journey of the Magi” in the audio track of today’s featured video. For those of you who have...

I Saw You Today

Poetry dotMagis Editor

On Sundays we ask our Ignatian Spirituality Facebook community where they have found God during the week. Gary Thomas shares his response: As I rode...

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