Transcript The Catholic Spirit

 Sacred Times and Sacred Spaces
“St. Francis and the Animals”
shows the wonderful rapport
St. Francis had with animals.
It expresses his wonderful
ability to see God in all
things, particularly his
“brothers and sisters” in the
animal world.
Thomas of Celano was a
companion and biographer
of St. Francis.
“Welcome Morning” is a
joyful poem about
experience God in the
simplest pleasures.
Anne Sexton was a Pulitzer
Prize-winning American poet
who wrote poetry as a way
of dealing with depression in
her life.
“i thank You God for most
this amazing” is a poem that
helps the reader experience
thanksgiving to God anew.
e e cummings was an
enormously popular
American poet known for his
unique use of capitalization
in grammar.
This selection from the novel
“The Cathedral” compares
the beauty of Chartres
Cathedral with the vulgar
and sensualized art of the
modern world.
J. K. Huysmans was a
member of the Decadents, a
group of French intellectuals
who depicted sin and the
unnatural. However, during
his research, he had a
conversion to Catholicism
and grew in appreciation of
the beauty of Church
architecture.