{"id":2785,"date":"2018-11-01T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:13","slug":"nov-1-all-saints-day-3-jesuit-saints-who-live-in-my-memory-refresh-my-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/11\/01\/nov-1-all-saints-day-3-jesuit-saints-who-live-in-my-memory-refresh-my-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 1 – All Saints Day – 3 Jesuit saints who live in my memory & refresh my imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, \u00a0November 1
\n“Could crowd career with conquest”<\/p>\n

I\u2019m posting All Saints Day like a Jesuit Homie \u2013 \u00a0three Jesuits: one with whom I lived here in Detroit for years before he died, Art McGovern.\u00a0 The second,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0St. Alphonsus Rodriquez,\u00a0lived a barely noticed life in the 1500s and was named a Saint according to Catholic practice in 1888. \u00a0 The third saint is familiar to the list’s readers: Gerard Manley Hopkins, another non-famous person during his life. \u00a0 Hopkins\u2019 poem in honor of Alphonsus, whose feast was yesterday, is a tribute to a compelling human being and the wonder of his seemingly un-noteworthy life as a college door-keeper hundreds of years ago.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll begin my annual retreat tomorrow with some airport help, \u00a0so the ordinary Friday post stepped ahead by a day.<\/p>\n

November chills and strong leaf colors, blessings as you go.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

1) \u00a0 \u00a0Monday November 2 \u2013 a saint who lived with us, \u00a0Art McGovern, sj<\/strong><\/p>\n

On All Saints Day Art McGovern seems to come and find me. Yesterday was, in the R Catholic calendar, the feast of all the saints. \u00a0He who died at 70 in May of 2000. \u00a0Art lived close to the ground \u2014 at home with play (\u201chealth food is the kind you like so much you feel good while eating it: \u00a0my 3 are pretzels, ice cream, and bacon.\u201d) and grief, at home with losses and wins, at home \u00a0leading difficult committees, at home with impeccably prepared classes laced with kind teasing and learning (\u201cFr. McGovern is like feathers; he makes you laugh while \u00a0you think hard.\u201d said a student one time). \u00a0If someone can be a world class scholar, a beloved teacher, a rabid Ohio State football fan and a kinsman day in and day out . . . . \u00a0well, no surprise he came to mind this morning.<\/p>\n

2 & 3) \u00a0Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/strong> has never lost his capacity to knock me flat when I read him out loud, with pauses. \u00a0His encomium for Alphonsus \u00a0Rodriquez<\/strong> whose \u00a0feast was yesterday, is no exception. \u00a0 Sure, on this gray November day, out loud with pauses can bless us with surprises.<\/p>\n

(https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alphonsus_Rodriguez<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Post:<\/strong><\/p>\n

G. M. Hopkins<\/p>\n

“In honour of \u00a0St. Alphonsus Rodriquez,\u00a0<\/strong>
\nLaybrother\u00a0of\u00a0the Society of Jesus”<\/strong><\/p>\n

HONOUR is flashed off exploit, so we say;
\nAnd those strokes\u00a0once\u00a0that gashed flesh or galled shield
\nShould tongue that time now, trumpet now that field,
\nAnd, on the fighter, forge his glorious day.
\nOn Christ they do and on the martyr may;
\nBut\u00a0be the war within, the\u00a0brand\u00a0we wield
\nUnseen, the heroic breast not outward-steeled,
\nEarth hears no hurtle then from\u00a0fiercest\u00a0fray.<\/p>\n

Yet\u00a0God (that hews mountain and continent,
\nEarth, all,\u00a0out; who,\u00a0with trickling increment,
\nVeins violets\u00a0and\u00a0tall trees makes more and more)
\nCould crowd career with conquest\u00a0while there went
\nThose years and years\u00a0by\u00a0of world without event
\nThat in\u00a0Majorca\u00a0Alfonso watched the door.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hopkins, painted 24 July 1866<\/p>\n

Gerard Manley Hopkins \u00a028 July 1844 \u2013 8 June, 1889 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thursday, \u00a0November 1 “Could crowd career with conquest” I\u2019m posting All Saints Day like a Jesuit Homie \u2013 \u00a0three Jesuits: one with whom I lived here in Detroit for years before he died, Art McGovern.\u00a0 The second,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0St. Alphonsus Rodriquez,\u00a0lived a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}