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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: Grace, Attention and Beauty with Marilynne Robinson
Description: The American essayist and novelist Marilynne Robinson may not be Catholic, but her writing reveals a deeply sacramental imagination. Through five books of fiction and dozens of essays, Robinson trains her readers in the art of spiritual attention. Where is God’s grace operating in nature and in the ordinary ways humans love, disappoint and forgive one other?
In her essay “Psalm 8” she writes, “I have spent my life watching not to see beyond the world,” but “merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes… With all due
respect to heaven, the scene of miracle is here, among us.”
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