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Spring Fever: Flower Power

An invitation from Joseph Pearce
 
If you missed last night’s spring festival with the Troubadours on the theme of “flowers”, here’s your chance to watch the recording. It’s a florid and floral extravaganza in which the Troubadours take turns to pick flowers. Actually, they take turns to pick other men’s flowers. Each Troubadour picked poems on a floral theme. William Fahey invoked a classic text on botany but then went from ancient to modern with a recitation of a poem by Robert Frost. Dale Ahlquist surprised everyone by offering a botanical bouquet by some obscure writer named Chesterton. Christopher Check picked a wayside dandelion of his own, actually a wayside zucchini flower, as well as taking a world tour of exotic plants with Rudyard Kipling. As for yours truly, I picked a couple of daffodils, one by Wordsworth and the other by A. A. Milne. We ended with Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem in praise of the Mystic Rose, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the great flower of them all. Watch men picking flowers and experience the flower power!

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        Dale Ahlquist          Society of G.K. Chesterton

Christopher Check Catholic Answers

    William Fahey       Thomas More College

          Daniel Kerr           St. Martin’s Academy

         Joseph Pearce          St. Austin Review

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About the Troubadours Summit

The Troubadours Summit Series is an outgrowth of an annual symposium in Fort Scott, Kansas called the Prairie Troubadour.

Faithful to Holy Mother Church, The Troubadours are a group of friends inspired by the likes of Cardinal Newman, G.K. Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, John Senior, and other stalwarts of the Faith, to live and share the Joy of Christ through stories, song and good red wine. Through our online summit series, we aim to create an authentic Catholic experience where the Good, the True and the Beautiful are glimpsed through lively discourse punctuated by earnest prayer, strong drink, and the real mirth found in friendship.

Catholicism needn’t be stodgy and narrow. Quite the contrary! As G.K. Chesterton reminds us, the walls built by the Church through doctrine and discipline are not the walls of a prison, but the “walls of a playground.”

And, as Belloc wrote, “Wherever the Catholic Sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino.”

Indeed it is so. Let us bless the Lord!

 

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The Original Troubadour

The Prairie Troubadour is named in memoriam of poet, song-writer and man of the Kansas prairie, Gerald Francis Kerr (1944-2015). Dr. Kerr was a patriarch, physician, poet, farmer, troubadour, true Kansan and lover of the prairie. A Catholic son and beloved husband, he was father of 6 and papa to 31 grand-children. Click below to hear one of his recordings, Raggedy Man, an original composition based on a poem by James Whitcomb Riley.