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Holy Sonnet VIII – also known by its opening words as If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified – is a poem written by John Donne, an English metaphysical poet. It was first published in 1633, two years after the author's death. [1] It is included in the "Holy Sonnets," a collection of nineteen poems written by John Donne.
The Dream of Gerontius is an 1865 poem written by John Henry Newman, consisting of the prayer of a dying man, and angelic and demonic responses. The poem, written after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, [1] explores his new Catholic-held beliefs of the journey from death through Purgatory, thence to Paradise, and to God ...
During Luther's lifetime, All Souls' Day was widely observed in Saxony although the Roman Catholic meaning of the day was discarded; [30] ecclesiastically in the Lutheran Church, the day was merged with and is often seen as an extension of All Saints' Day, with many Lutherans still visiting and decorating graves on all the days of Allhallowtide ...
Poetic forms have been used by Christians since the recorded history of the faith begins. The earliest Christian poetry, in fact, appears in the New Testament. Canticles such as the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, which appear in the Gospel of Luke, take the Biblical poetry of the psalms of the Hebrew Bible as their models. [1]
Saturday of Souls (or Soul Saturday) is a day set aside for the commemoration of the dead within the liturgical year of the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. Saturday is a traditional day of prayer for the dead, because Christ lay dead in the Tomb on Saturday.
The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella, c. 1365. Allhallowtide, [1] Hallowtide, [2] Allsaintstide, [3] or the Hallowmas season [4] [5] is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Saints' Eve (), All Saints' Day (All Hallows') and All Souls' Day, [6] [7] [8] as well as the International Day of Prayer for the ...
Mano a Mano, a nonprofit organization celebrating “Mexican culture without borders,” has a list of New York City Day of the Dead events, including one at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery that ...
Luís de Camões – Catholic; his poem is (among other things) a call to arms against the enemies of the Christian faith; Lúcio Cardoso – Catholic writer, poet and playwright; Miguel Esteves Cardoso – contemporary writer, critic and journalist; Otto Maria Carpeaux – Austrian-born Brazilian journalist and literary historian and critic