Giovanni di Paolo. St Catherine of Siena Dictating her Dialogues
Today is the memorial of St Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor, patroness of the Dominican Laity.
Here’s a roundup of relevant links.
The Catholic Encyclopedia article on St Catherine concludes,
The key-note to Catherine’s teaching is that man, whether in the cloister or in the world, must ever abide in the cell of self-knowledge, which is the stable in which the traveller through time to eternity must be born again.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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I don’t know why, when I was trying to decide what to be when I grew up, I never considered Art Historian.
What always occurs to me about St. Catherine is that a 22nd or 23rd child, or whatever she was, wouldn’t have much of a chance of being born nowadays.
AMDG
Indeed. As much as I pray that the number of celibates increases dramatically, I also hope that those of us not so called will rise to the challenge as heroically as Catherine’s parents did. Someone will have to take up the slack.
I love that the scribe is working with BOTH HANDS. One for Jesus, one for Catherine?
Ask your Doctrix if Ambidex is right for you.
See, if I was an art historian, I could tell you all about it.
AMDG