Tag Archives: Paradiso

Finding Sanctuary within the Self

Teasdale’s lovely poem “Sanctuary” finds other ways than the conventional to put us in touch with God.

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Hearing the Celestial Voices

Two shepherd poems to mark the shepherd references in today’s lectionary.

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Christ Be with Me, Christ within Me

To understand the Trinity, think of yourself sitting in nature and seeing God both in and beyond your surroundings.

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Expressing Thanks Is Its Own Reward

Thanks giving is not (as Milton’s Satan) contends, a burdensome debt but the key to deep joy.

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Dante’s Version of Heaven on Earth

In talking to Solomon in Paradiso, Dante gets a new vision of heaven on earth.

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Philip Pullman’s Unorthodox Afterlife

In “Amber Spyglass,” Pullman rebels against orthodox versions of the afterlife and creates his own.

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Homer, Virgil, Dante and the Afterlife

Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.

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St. Francis: Made for Beauty

St. Francis radically changed the way we see beauty and ourselves in relationship to beauty.

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O Virgin Mother, Daughter of the Sun

To celebrate Mother’s Day, here’s the moment in “Paradiso” when Dante meets Mary.

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