About The Catholic Poetic
The Catholic Poetic is a space for thoughts about truth, goodness, and beauty.
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born.”
~ C. S. Lewis
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Absence: A Meditation On Grief and Loss
The thing about loss is that you forget about it. It’s not something that happens accidentally, or something you try to do. You can’t accidentally bury it beneath your consciousness, and you certainly can’t kick it under your mental rug on your own. But somehow, someway, you inevitably forget. It’s not “forgetting” in the strictest… Read more
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Behold His Heart
“Behold the Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify Its love . . .” These are the words of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, asking her to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart. We might be familiar with the sacred… Read more
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When God’s Voice is Quiet
We’ve all had our Mountaintop Moments: those times when we have felt closest to God and when our confidence in His love and plan for us has been completely secure. It can be hard not to equate the strength of our relationship with God to the tangible feelings and manifestations of His presence in our… Read more
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Reminders of His Faithfulness
I recently finished yet another prayer journal. Its pages are filled with my scribbled cursive, and after a year of sitting with it in the port, or at adoration back home, I’ve become attached. I don’t know what your personal salvation history looks like, but for me, it’s a shelf in my bedroom where all… Read more
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Time and Eternity
Time is painful for us. Recently my theology class discussed this common human experience: the innate melancholy of the passage of time. We find this melancholy in the changing of the seasons, in the twinge of sadness we feel when the golden leaves fall from the trees. We find it in a mother’s eyes as… Read more
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God of the In-Betweens
If you’re like me, a moment of downtime is when you reach for your phone. I don’t know what it is about those uncomfortable in-betweens, those times that are book-ended with events or items on the to-do list but not given a structure in themselves. I’ve found myself reaching for a distraction while waiting in… Read more
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