Giotto's Adoration of the Magi

 

Image:  Adoration of the Magi - Giotto di Bondone, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tissot's The Magi Journeying

On their way!

Waugh and the Three Kings

British Catholic author Evelyn Waugh wrote a beautiful poem about the Three Kings.  Waugh was a convert. The poem (framed as a prayer) draws a parallel between converts and the Magi, who arrive in Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus. The poem can be found here.

In a letter to Edward Sackville-West, Waugh wrote, “Conversion is like stepping across the chimney piece out of a Looking-Glass world, where everything is an absurd caricature, into the real world God made; and then begins the delicious process of exploring it limitlessly.”

The depth of Waugh's humility and gratitude for his conversion is found in the poem's lines, "May we, too, before and at the end find kneeling-space in the straw."