Comments on: Holy Week–Maundy Thursday

By: Mary L. Bradford

Mary L. Bradford — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:45:43 +0000

I am so happy that a poet is taking Dialogue, and a Haglund, a family I love having become acquained with them in Arlington VA. Kristine, please count on me in any way you can see fit even though I am gently aging here. The shade of Gene England also rejoices, I fel ceertain. He longed to see Dialogue in the hnds of “the Youth.” But an experienced, thinking youth. Thanks you! Thanks you, Molly, and Dialogue’s wonderful Board of Editors who lift burdens off the shoulders of the editor.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:46:43 +0000

Thank you, Kristine. Hopkins was my dear friend Peggy Rogers’s favorite poet. She died last November, sure of no afterlife, and wistful for the remainder of the life that she would not be living. No reading books to her grandchildren for Peggy.

Maybe she was wrong.

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:14:19 +0000

In case anyone wants to know what “Maundy” Thursday is, see this from the Online Etymological Dictionary:

1440, from M.E. maunde “the Last Supper,” also “ceremony of washing the feet,” from O.Fr. mandé, from L. mandatum “commandment,” in reference to the opening words of the church service for this day, Mandatum novum do vobis “A new commandment I give unto you” (John xiii.34), words supposedly spoken by Jesus to the Apostles after washing their feet at the Last Supper.

By: Kevinf

Kevinf — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:06:28 +0000

Hopkins, indeed the Great!

One of my favorite poems, Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, ends with this great line:

…birds build — but not I build; no, but strain,
Time’s eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.
Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

Thank you, Kristine.