Dialogue 4: Little Gidding

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this fourth dialogue session Jim and Kirsten focus on quartet four, Little Gidding. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. A free version can be accessed online here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: [email protected] Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until November 7th, 2024. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.0	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:08.2	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.2	And I'm Kirsten Oates.
0:13.2	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:26.9	Welcome, everyone, to C of Turning to the Mystics,
0:31.6	where we're turning to T.S. Eliot and his book, The Four Quartetes.
0:39.3	And I'm here with Jim to discuss his session on the last poem in the Four Quartet, Little Gidding. Yes, looking forward to walking through this together.
0:42.3	It's a beautiful poem.
0:44.3	Yes, the book comes to a beautiful conclusion in this poem.
0:48.3	It does.
0:49.3	I really enjoyed your session. Thank you.
0:52.3	Just to begin with, just like all all the poems this poem is grounded in a
0:57.6	real place in England so little getting is an Anglican church well it was the home of an
1:05.2	Anglican community anyway established in 1626 and I looked up the image on the internet,
1:13.0	and it's a beautiful little chapel.
1:16.3	And you can still visit that today, I believe.
1:19.6	Mm-hmm.
1:20.2	I believe so, yes.
1:21.3	Yeah.
1:22.2	But the big point for us in the poem is that this is a long-standing place of prayer.
1:29.1	Is that right, Jim?
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