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Cinematic Revelations: A Poem

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 5, 2020 | Culture, Featured, History, Media, Movies, Poetry | 0 |

Directors differ in their form of art,
From spoof to realistic history,
While casting actors for each part,
For drama, romance, comedy,
To craft a masterpiece or silly camp,
About a villain, saint or holy tramp.

Can Culture Be Whatever?

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Feb 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Manners | 0 |

Real culture does not incite the curiosity of the guilty, but the wonder of the innocent.

The Voice – A Poem

by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured, Literature, Poetry, Spirituality | 0 |

Initial pulses jotting out/ Sequential phrases yet in disarray,/ Like careless comets crossing starry skies,/ Their fleeting flying splendor falls from sight.

From the Gulag, a Priest and Poet Issue a Warning

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Jun 23, 2015 | America, Books, Culture, Eastern Church, Faith, Family, Featured, Literature, Poetry, Spirituality | 1 |

The next day I thumbed through the book, “Father Arseny: A Cloud of Witnesses,” a collection of stories told by those who knew this faithful and humble Russian Orthodox priest, a starets, who had spent more than twenty years in the Soviet Gulag.

An Exhibition of Marian Art in Washington, DC

by Michael Hichborn | Dec 19, 2014 | Culture, Featured, Spirituality | 3 |

Each section, meditating on Mary as a Woman, a Mother, and an Ideal, captured far more than Mary’s cultural impact and importance on a modern world — it fulfilled Mary’s prophecy that all generations would call her blessed. And this exhibit does no less.