From a Poem by George Santayana (A Few Words for Wednesday)

Feast of St. Teilo  

I think you will be surprised by this, because I know I was.Yesterday, I shared a little something that the atheist, and self-described "aesthetic Catholic," George Santayana wrote. Today I'm going to do the same.

It seems Professor George really wanted to be known as a poet and he wrote a good number of poems and sonnets, which were published by the Herbert S. Stone & Company publishing house. I "discovered" his poem The Hermit of Carmel yesterday and I am amazed by it. I  added it to the YIMCatholic Bookshelf without hesitation.

For Thoughts Like These by George Santayana

—Feast of St. Jerome Emiliani 

Let me preface this post with an acknowledgement of the fact that philosopher George Santayana died as an atheist. But as an atheist, Santayana put pen to paper on some Catholic ideas that lack only one thing, really. And that one thing is the simple faith of a child in order to believe them.

As minds of adults go, George had an intellect that was top notch. But as Our Lord said,

Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.