Carmelite poet Jessica Powers draws upon her Irish heritage in the poem, "The Far Island"; she writes, “Heaven to me a mystic Erin is / God’s sea-encircled dwelling, wholly lit / by its own inner and eternal day / and all my birds of longing nest in it.”
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Quote of the day: 17 March
I pray to Patrick of the Trinity
to gain for me this isle of the Triune
Advent: a poem by Patrick Kavanaugh
here in the Advent-darkened room... we'll return to Doom the knowledge we stole but could not use
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