FLORILEGIUM - 24. Sonnet to My Mother

Kate and Antonia read from Mark 13:24-32, for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary time. They delve into different propositions for the argument of ‘who is saved?’ looking at George Macdonald and Hans Von Balthasars perspectives. They move onto George Barker’s ‘Sonnet To My Mother’, and a Catholic/Calvinist way of being in the world before turning back to time in the garden, how we intervene in nature as accelerators or decelerators, succession planting and stories that teach children what they can and can’t eat… Find and subscribe to all our episodes and articles on Substack @Florilegiumpodcast https://substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast

Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack at substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast

About the Creators

Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria.

Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

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