“In the spiritual body man actually appears as he is, with respect to love and faith; for every one in the spiritual world is the likeness of his love, not only as to the face and body, but even as to speech and actions. Hence it is that the true qualities are known, and […]
Browsing Tag: love
Music
FOR BEATRICE (INSTRUMENTAL)
“ This song is “For Beatrice”—”The Giver of Blessings”—by whom Dante was inspired, and for whom “The Divine Comedy” is devoted. It is She that leads Dante into Paradise and shows him where Virgil and Reason cannot go. Until this song, I never came close to expressing a sound in mind through instrument. […]
Journal Pages
A PRAYER IN HOPE
It lived on day in the Second Canticle of Spring, its song voiced by birds, messengers on wing, in proclamation of arrival to new and promised life. She departed on day when the first of spring shone green through recession of winter’s covering snow; appearing in the low bases and shortest blades of wintered […]
Poetry
A STRANGER
(This poem was inspired by reading Dante and how his envisioning of the personage of “Beatrice” affected and inspired his art. To me, it is an inspiring example how one person, how ever small their perceived presence in another’s life can affect and redefine entire worlds.)
Short Story
HER NAME
Ryan listened to the conversation never expecting to become a part. Resting in the college coffee shop, Ryan listened as two English Doctorates—each with their own private, and common, ambition to write the next Great American Novel—debated Dante and the identity of his beloved. As the often case of most such-dreamers, their minds […]
Journal Pages
RECOGNIZED
“‘To be loved is to be looked at in such a manner that the reality of cognition is disclosed.’ A Christian who doesn’t merely see but looks at another communicates to that person that he is being recognized as a human being in an impersonal world of objects, as someone and not something.”—Brennan Manning, “The […]
Quick Thought
JUNE 7, 2020: A MESSAGE
I believe in Divine Providence. I believe the influence, effect, and messaging of God within our world is real even when we sometimes misconstrue the meaning—something inevitable given the imperfect state in which we all, as humans, exist. I have witnessed and felt in my soul too many times messages in the Catholic Missal […]