Our Brothers -- John, John, John.
John the Baptist was born 6 months before Christmas.
He became the messenger preparing the way for Christ, "the
voice of one crying in the wilderness." He was beheaded
for speaking the truth.
Living in the desert prepared
John for his mission.
Saint John of the Cross was born on this day in 1542.
He was a Spanish mystic, priest and poet, famous
for La noche oscura del alma (The Dark Night
of the Soul), in which he describes the growth
of the soul toward God. John was imprisoned for
his attempts to reform some Religious.
John Ciardi, the poet and educator was born on
June 24, 1916. His famous textbook on poetry,
"How Does A Poem Mean" is still in use today.
He is also know for some of his delightful children's
poems.
"The poet cannot know where he is going: he must
take direction from the poem itself" -- wise advice
from Ciardi.
"I am in Rome,
Vatican bells tolling/
a windowful of God
and Bernini."
-John Ciardi
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