Simple Graces
For centuries, poems have been written describing God's simple graces. Saint Alphonsus Liguori, the founder of the Redemptorist Order, was a great poet who conveyed God's love through meaningful and poignant verse.
Some of the most prolific and well-known poets of the past 150 years are included in this compilation and continue the tradition of using poems for prayer, meditation, and loving God.
The selected poems in this body of work are divided into themes common to all human experiences, including love, forgiveness, commitment, faith, and hope. The chapters are shaped to give the reader a chance to hear the deep stirring of their hearts put into words, and this can be done on an individual basis or as lectio divina, or group prayer, when a verse is read aloud to the group.
Some of the poets included in the book are Anna Akhmatova, Emily Dickinson, Robert Hayden and Naomi Shihab Nye writing about God's love, nature, hope, faith, and heaven. Wendell Berry writes of peace and salvation, and Patrick Kavanagh of love and forgiveness.
Poetry is a way of expressing extraordinary thought in a simple fashion; these poems express intense emotions of love, thankfulness, wonder, and peace. Throughout the years, simple graces have inspired poets to write and readers to reflect on God's beauty and love that is all around us.
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| Series | N/A |
|---|---|
| Publish Date | 09/15/2008 |
| Pages or Item Count | 144 |
| Size | 5 x 7 Hardcover with Jacket |
| Weight | 0.66 |
| Illustrator | N/A |
| Case Quantity (Print) | N/A |
| Discount Category | Hardcover Book |
| Product Code | 817557 |
Gretchen L. Schwenker is a writer and editor from Princeton, New Jersey, who has worked across a broad spectrum of subjects, including medicine, the arts, literature, and spirituality. The use of poetry for meditation is a particular interest. After spending some years studying in Ireland and the United Kingdom, she was granted a doctorate in English literature from the University of Stirling, Scotland. She served as a coeditor on The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Autobiographies.
Fr. Mathew Kessler graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in physics before joining the Redemptorists in 1987. He has served as a parish priest and mission preacher, and as managing editor of the Liguori Publications Spanish imprint, Libros Liguori. He then served as President/Publisher from 2006 until the summer of 2013 and was elected Provincial Vicar for the Denver Province of the Redemptorist order in 2014.
