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John Paul II: The Musical to debut in Poland next year

John Paul II: The Musical to debut in Poland next year

by: Agence France-Presse - The Guardian in Expressions,

Polish theatre producers have announced they are working on a pop and rock musical of the life of John Paul II, the former pope and the nation’s beloved native son. “We’re trying to create something big,” says the show’s writer Michal Kaczmarczyk. “We will tell his whole life story, from his infancy until his death.”

Sacred Mysteries: the Abbey’s shrine for Henry VIII’s grandmother

Sacred Mysteries: the Abbey’s shrine for Henry VIII’s grandmother

by: Christopher Howse - The Telegraph in Expressions,

We’re lucky still to have the brilliant Gothic glasshouse of Henry VII’s chapel at Westminster Abbey. It might have been destroyed in the war – or earlier. After all, only outraged defence by parishioners saved the neighbouring church of St Margaret’s from demolition by the Duke of Somerset’s men who in 1549 came to tear it down for stone to build Somerset House.

Barry Hines, author of book behind Kes, dies

Barry Hines, author of book behind Kes, dies

by: Robert Booth - The Guardian in Expressions,

His friend, the writer and broadcaster Ian McMillan, tweeted on Sunday morning: “Very sad news: the great writer Barry Hines, creator of Barnsley’s defining myth A Kestrel for a Knave, has died. Rest in peace.” Hines wrote several novels, from his first in 1966, The Blinder, about football, to his last in 2009, This Artistic Life. He also wrote the screenplay for the TV drama Threads, which imagined a nuclear attack in Sheffield.

Jesuit priest uses painting to evangelize In retirement

Jesuit priest uses painting to evangelize In retirement

by: Katharina R. Lestari, - UCA News Jakarta in Expressions,

Dutch-born Jesuit Father Lambertus Sugiri van den Heuvel was 84 years old when he was invited to join a painting course last February at St. Theresa Parish in Central Jakarta. "They gave me canvases, paintbrushes and paints. I was so excited," he told ucanews.com. 

Top 50 Most Famous Paintings

Top 50 Most Famous Paintings

by: www.artsheaven.com in Expressions,

 This wonderful video presents fifty of the world most famous paintings of all time. A number of these famous paintings are currently housed in various famous museums around the world. You can purchase reproduction of these famous masterpieces at our website at http://www.artsheaven.com

Bill Viola on St Paul's Cathedral commission: 'It flummoxed me'

Bill Viola on St Paul's Cathedral commission: 'It flummoxed me'

by: Martin Gayford - The Telegraph in Expressions,

For over a decade, Viola has been pondering the task of making two video-art altar pieces for St Paul’s Cathedral, to stand at the east ends of the north and south choir aisles. Now, after over a decade of thought, they are completed, installed and will be seen for the first time by the public at evensong on Wednesday, May 21st.

The meaning of Blake's 'Jerusalem'

The meaning of Blake's 'Jerusalem'

by: Joe Unsworth in Expressions,

The words of Blake's 'Jerusalem' were put to music in 1916 to flag the spirits of our troops in WW1, - very much in the news in this its centenary year. Angela McGhin shares with godgossip an article written by Joe Unsworth, her brother-in-law, for his church magazine.

Four centuries on from his death, time to meet the real El Greco

Four centuries on from his death, time to meet the real El Greco

by: Javier Rodriguez Marcos - El Pais in Expressions,

It was also in Rome that he met the Castilian noblemen who encouraged him to move to Toledo. Beginning in 1577, the fate of Domenikos Theotokopoulos was forever entwined with that of Spain. Fernando Marías is the author of the modern work of reference on the Cretan artist: El Greco. 

My Mother

My Mother

by: Mahmoud Darwish in Expressions,

I long for my mother's bread / My mother's coffee / Her touch
Childhood memories grow up in me / Day after day /  I must be worth my life

 
WHILE WAITING

WHILE WAITING

by: Donna Pucciani in Expressions,

DONNA PUCCIANI’s poetry has been been published on four continents in such diverse journals as International Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Pedestal, nebu[lab], Italian Americana, Journal of the American Medical Association, Poetry Salzburg, Shichao Poetry, Istanbul Literary Review and Christianity and Literature. 

SPRING

SPRING

by: Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ in Expressions,

Nothing is so beautiful as spring -

 When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush, ... 

The Forge by Seamus Heaney

The Forge by Seamus Heaney

by: Angel McGhin - Reporter in Expressions,

 As friend of the Claretian Missionaries who are undergoing a Spiritual Practice named "The Forge", and admirer of Seamus Heaney who has recently passed away, I thought of sending to you this poem in the belief that it tells what a forge should be.

Digging. Honoring the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature

Digging. Honoring the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature

by: Seamus Heaney in Expressions,

Seamus Justin Heaney, poet and teacher: Mossbawn, Castledawson, Co Derry 13 April 1939; Professor of Poetry, Oxford University 1989–94; Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Harvard University 1985–2007; Nobel Prize for Literature 1995; married 1965 Marie Devlin (two sons, one daughter); died Dublin 30 August 2013.

Full Moon

Full Moon

by: Robert Hayden in Expressions,

The emphatic moon ascends ...../ the brilliant challenger of rocket experts,/ the white hope of connections men. / Some I love who are dead / were watchers of the moon and knew its lore; / planted seeds, trimmed their hair.

THE THRONE - Queen Elizabeth II Coronation

THE THRONE - Queen Elizabeth II Coronation

by: Ann Duffy in Expressions,

 Here is the poem specially written to commemorate the Queen's 60th Anniversary. "The crown translates a woman to a Queen / endless gold, circling itself, an O like a well, / fathomless, for the years to drown in - history's bride, / anointed, blessed, for a crowning..."