A Journal of Catholic Experience

This season, our featured text from the Church's treasury of saints' writings is an ode to the Holy Spirit composed by Saint Hildegard, the Abbess of Bingen (1098-1179). We include Hildegard's original Latin along with an English translation:

O ignis spiritus paracliti »

 

Featured artwork: Detail of Stillness (2005), by Beata Goik. Private collection.

 

MADE BY OUR HANDS

purgatorioMother

By Beata Goik

 

 

 


purgatorioCopenhagen I

By Katya Vetrov

 

 

purgatorioThe Pilgrim on his Way

By Emmy van Deurzen

 

 

 

 

 

STORY AND SONG

A Vision

Poetry by Andrew Thornton-Norris

 

The Book of Kells

Poetry by Daniel Janeiro

 

Catherine's Garden

A short story by Dena Hunt

 

Two Satires

Poetry by Andrew Thornton-Norris

 

Him

Poetry by James Como

 

 

 

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PENTECOST/ASSUMPTION 2011

Hope in Japan after 3-11

Anna Kojima, a survivor of the recent earthquakes in Japan, tells her story, news of her parish's role in the post-tsunami relief effort, and thoughts about her nation's future.

 

 

Finding New and Ancient Faith at Harvard

Christopher Bruno Lacaria describes his encounter with the traditional Latin liturgy while in college and celebrates its return to St. Paul Church in Cambridge, Massachussetts.

 

 

The Web Not Taken

An essay from the editor's desk, on Pilgrim's unconventional way of proceeding on the web.

 

 

Pilgrimage at Sea

Louis Markos discusses The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by the British Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

 

 

Cebu

Christian Huebner recalls, with surprise, which memories have come to mean most to him from a beach vacation to the Philippines.

 

 

Of Modest Mice and Men

Andy Smith ponders the merits of Lupe Fiasco's hip-hop remix of Modest Mouse's "Float On."

 

 

 

 

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ADVENT/CHRISTMAS 2010

LENT/EASTER 2011

 

 

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