Today is Easter, the culmination of the Lenten season for Catholics, and today’s pod features one of the great spiritual and Catholic poets, my high school English teacher Mrs. Schmitzer’s favorite (such that she wouldn’t teach his work lest us assholes ruin it for her) Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poem fits the day: “Easter.”
We heard selections from the hymn “Were You There,” a bit of delayed closure from Friday’s episode and a favorite hymn from a very different kind of church, The Hold Steady’s “Your Little Hoodrat Friend” (from their highly allegorical concept album Separation Sunday).
Like people of good faith and my Grandma Marian always likes to say, “He is risen,” and all you people of good or questionable faith reply: “Indeed He is.” Happy Easter, see you tomorrow for more poetry.
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