Art and Literature – Conciliar Post

The rolling emptiness of a Sunday afternoon, The deafening silence of a vacant room, The brutal roar of a mind gone mad, After years of loneliness leave a soul unclad. Reaching a loved one in sea...

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Where are you I want to speak directly to you. I want to hold you fully in my awareness while I speak to you. You’ve been with me my whole life But I was always afraid of you. You were never ba...

https://conciliarpost.com/the-arts/poetry/a-poem-to-my-anxiety/

In all of my inadequacy I stand, Eyes cast down, chin quavering, salt trails glistening   In all of my paucity of soul I come, Weak-willed, straining to have what I want and to do what You want ...

https://conciliarpost.com/the-arts/poetry/in/

Lord, help me . . . save me from the world outside of me, trying to crush me and push me into its mold. But Lord, I have swallowed the world and it is inside of me. Save me, too, from the world w...

https://conciliarpost.com/theology-spirituality/prayer/prayer/

It seems to me at this stage of my life that one of the harder parts of maturing in faith is coming to grips with the fact that all of scripture, all of our experience in Christ, all the core bel...

https://conciliarpost.com/theology-spirituality/the-power-of-the-enemy-or-the-hands-of-a-friend/

There exists, they say, a great adventure for each of us, but where will we find it? for now we leaf through the old calendars in case we save something from the years – truly, what goes on in ...

https://conciliarpost.com/the-arts/poetry/lonesome-steps/

The wind howls; People cower As doors sigh then clang shut, Metal latches loud and angry; We feel safe indoors, unaware That time thus drains our alkaline train Of thoughts battered with each gus...

https://conciliarpost.com/the-arts/poetry/through-the-rain/

  We sing because God sings, and the great mystery grows among lilies, lilacs and rose while mother dies, and the bell rings in a season we’re still to know.   We sing because God sings over ...

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Book lovers develop their own shorthand for the books that stand out from all the other books they have ever read. This compliment of compliments is unique to each bibliophile. For some it is “...

https://conciliarpost.com/the-arts/the-books-that-save-our-lives/

AAADT in Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. Photo by Pierre Wachholder. link. “The rhythms are very strong now. They sustain everyone in the room. All are moving. The music seems to be coming from in...

https://conciliarpost.com/the-arts/freedom-in-the-flesh-a-reflection-on-alvin-aileys-revelations/