"How the Irish Invented Poetry: Irish Monks and the Canticle of St. Francis"

Talk by Fr. Paul Murray, O.P., Author and Teacher

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The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship presents author Paul Murray, a Dominican friar, and a poet, professor, and Irish raconteur extraordinaire.  Fr. Murray will discuss “How the Irish Invented Poetry: Irish Monks and the Canticle of St. Francis.” The presentation is in the nave of St. Dominic church.

Fr. Murray's many books have been translated into at least eight languages. His latest book is  God’s Spies: Michelangelo, Shakespeare and Other Poets of Vision.
He teaches the literature of the Western mystical tradition at the renowned Angelicum University in Rome, and is in the United States now to film a number of talks for the Word on Fire Institute. Bishop Robert Barron has called him "one of today's great Catholic poets and spiritual writers."

This event is sponsored by the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship. Admission is free, but please register at Benedict XVI Institute.

Titles by Fr. Murray include  Scars: Essays, Poems and Meditations on Affliction;  T.S. Eliot and Mysticism: The Secret History of Four Quartets;  I Loved Jesus in the Night: Teresa of Calcutta;  and Aquinas at Prayer: The Bible, Mysticism and Poetry.