Thank you for sharing this lovely essay and unpacking the poem of beauty in a hawks’ flight. God’s light in the peaks of sheer obvious beauty and troughs of life where we see his light in the minutiae in the valleys, even the turning of earth with plow! I am quite overcome, it was much needed in the valley time i walk right now. Beautifully written.
"The entire cosmos is an altar on which beauty and sacrifice are mingled."
A beautiful piece! Thank you for sharing.
I'm not a priest (obviously), but I am a cantor, and in some Masses I am still moved to tears by the beauty of it all.
Thank you for sharing this lovely essay and unpacking the poem of beauty in a hawks’ flight. God’s light in the peaks of sheer obvious beauty and troughs of life where we see his light in the minutiae in the valleys, even the turning of earth with plow! I am quite overcome, it was much needed in the valley time i walk right now. Beautifully written.
Lovely essay. Resonates with some of my recent meditations on similar themes involving birds, poetry, and turning: https://open.substack.com/pub/onceaweek/p/the-grace-of-peripheral-vision
Well done. Thanks for the share