Indeed He Is Risen!
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Arwen’s post on the challenge of Easter feasting reminded me of this contemporary Russian painting I adore.
It also reminded me of this Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, which describes the ineffable joy of receiving Christ after a difficult Lent. The penances he describes, however, put anything I have ever tried to shame, and I can’t help thinking the degree of our... READ MORE
An Unfortunate Incident
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Just me on Saturday, February 11, 2012
Thanks for your prayers for all of us testifying before the Maryland House of Delegates in defense of marriage yesterday.
It went fine, but it was an all-day ordeal, and I’m still too drained to write about it.
Politics ain’t beanbag, as they say.
How about something funny instead? Like my friend Angela’s poetic stylings about… an unfortunate incident.
An Unfortunate Incident
Angela Colarelli
Oh... READ MORE
Happy Thanksgiving To You & Yours
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Just me on Thursday, November 24, 2011
I am grateful for my faith, my family, this magnificent country of ours and its wonderful people—especially all of you.
Here’s a reprise of my brother’s illustration and poem from Thanksgiving a few years back.
Almost Thanksgiving
by Sam Ryskind
Roasted turkey, turkey stuffing
Gravy flowing in a boat.
Crans and hams and mashed potatoes
Whipped until they nearly float.
Yellow cornbread, black molasses,
Butter for a ton of rolls—
Almond, green bean, carrot, spinach,
Pearl onion casseroles.
Stalks of broc and brussels sprouts,
Corn and lima-bean goulashes,
Steamy brains of cauliflower,
Shapely deformed winter squashes.
Soups of root like rutabaga,
Pars’ and turnip, radish, beet,
Codfish stew and salty chowders,
Crammed with clam and oyster meat.
Piping pies hot from the oven—-
Call all hands to bring them in:
Apple, pumpkin, sweet potato,
Nutmeg spiced and cinnamon.
Coffee—lots of cream and sugar—
Tasty tarts stacked on a tray—
Stuffed? Don’t panic, this was practice.
Thanksgiving’s still an hour away!
Joyous Resurrection
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Easter
George Herbert
Rise, heart, thy lord is risen. Sing his praise
Without delays,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
With him may’st rise:
That, as his death calcinèd thee to dust,
His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.
Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part
With all thy art,
The cross taught all wood to resound his name
Who bore the same.
His stretchèd sinews taught... READ MORE
Stronger Far Than Death
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Monday, April 25, 2011
The Incarnation & Passion
Henry Vaughn
Lord! when thou didst thyself undress,
Laying by thy robes of glory,
To make us more, thou wouldst be less,
And becam’st a woeful story.
To put on clouds instead of light,
And clothe the morning star with dust,
Was a translation of such height
As, but in thee, was ne’er expressed;
Brave worms, and earth! that thus could have
A God enclosed within your cell,
Your... READ MORE
Resurrexit!
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Sunday, April 24, 2011
Seven Stanzas at Easter
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His flesh: ours.
The same hinged thumbs and toes,
the same valved... READ MORE
Lines for Lent
Posted by DariaSockey in Family on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
I know my guest week is over, but here’s a fun idea to keep morale up through the dreary days of late winter. Let’s write Lenten haiku. These can be serious or funny. Here’s mine to start it off.
Get out the big pot
Black beans patter like rainfall
While the children frown.
Where Are You From?
Posted by Lynn Wehner in Family on Tuesday, February 08, 2011
“I’m from the east coast.”
“I’m from New York.”
“I’m from a little town near Naples, Italy.”
When we’re asked the question, “Where are you from?” our answer usually relates somehow to our home town, place of residence, or nation of origin.
But “where we’re from” means so much more.
Last week, I shared this reality with some teens and pre-teens in a writing workshop. I was trying to impress upon them... READ MORE
Fifth Day of Christmas
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Joy to the World!
Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is... READ MORE
Fourth Day of Christmas
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Nativity, A Christmas Poem, John Donne
Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,
Now leaves His well-belov’d imprisonment,
There He hath made Himself to His intent
Weak enough, now into the world to come;
But O, for thee, for Him, hath the inn no room?
Yet lay Him in this stall, and from the Orient,
Stars and wise men will travel to prevent
The effect of Herod’s jealous general doom.
Seest thou, my soul,... READ MORE
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