WOF 392: Poetry, Beauty, and the Shock of Grace w/ Fr. Paul Murray, OP
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
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The Paradox of Beauty
An almost exact contemporary of Seymour Vay was Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She too, as it happens, was deeply affected by reading a poem by the same George Herbert. In this poem Herbert registers his astonishment at the seeming urgency of desire God manifests in seeking to capture the poet's love and attention. That God should bother to pursue with such passion the love of a mere mortal is something which always amazed Mother Teresa.
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