Memento Mori, a reminder of our own impending death, is an important theme of Lent …
As we remember on Ash Wednesday, and throughout Lent, humanity goes from ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
We remember our mortality with five poems for Lent on the theme of memento mori … Including poems by Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, Mary Szybist, MORE
Memento Mori
Billy Collins
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Horoscopes for the Dead
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IMAGE CREDIT: Memento Mori “To This Favour”, oil on canvas painting by William Michael Harnett, 1879, Cleveland Museum of Art
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Reading for the Common Good
From ERB Editor Christopher Smith
Reading for the Common Good
From ERB Editor Christopher Smith
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