Poems Every Catholic Should Know Quotes

“Steadfast cross, among all other Thou art a tree of great prize; In branch and flower such another I ne wot non in wood nor rise. Sweet be the nails, and sweet be the tree, And sweeter be the burden that hangs upon thee.”
― Joseph Pearce, Poems Every Catholic Should Know

“As the Son rose on Christian civilization, the Blessed Virgin emerged as the mother of poetry as she is the Mother of God in the magnificence of the Magnificat, and St. John, her divinely appointed son, is revealed as the progenitor of Christian metaphysical poetry in the opening lines of his Gospel and in the mystical majesty of his apocalyptic vision.”
― Joseph Pearce, Poems Every Catholic Should Know