BY SARAH LEVESQUE I highly recommend this movie. Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life or uncommitted to either side, you deserve to see what Abby saw. Read more

“Captain Leran! Dregans at Hobera! The king has ordered your squad to aid.” “And we will obey. Inform my men to meet me above the caves in five minutes!” “Yes, sir!” The elf quickly saluted before rushing off to spread the word. “Perhaps,” said Rivien, “we will find out what Sandor’s plans really are.”    Read more

For someone who is waiting for his beloved to come home, every day seems like eternity, what if it is not sure that the beloved is ever to come back? Such was Gabriel’s state . Gabriel wonders if perhaps Joyce would never come back. Looking at his wife, connected to so many machines, and waiting… Read more

“One day we shall return,” intoned the king in the words of the prophecy. “Males and a female will call us. Elf, hob, a dwarf, and a berserker, Will be there to welcome us. All will be glad For the evil one will be gone, Returning peace to the land, One that will last very… Read more

Snape stared at the boy, nearly dumbfounded. After last week’s…altercation… he had expected the boy to never darken his doorway out of his own free will again. “What are you doing here, you foolish boy?” Snape snapped finally. Read more

It may feel like a drop in the ocean, But it is a drop of power. It is really a drop into a vase, And in the vase is a flower. Read more

BY MARIE JEANETTE Throughout the story, Bilbo Baggins, the protagonist, grows in faith, hope, and love in turn. Read more

Joyce hears a young man reading from a book. But Joyce is too tired to try to hear or understand and she went back … Joyce remembers now her second son Gabriel Jr. and how she taught him how to read. Read more

By Lawrence “Mack” Hall Word Count: 80 Rating: G Summary: a short poem reflecting on Luke 24:13-35 The road from Emmaus is not in the book Emmaus isn’t even on the map Still, people walk to Emmaus every day And then they go away to somewhere else Because while everyone visits Emmaus It’s only for Read more

Muno’s eyes grew slightly wider and he glanced at the other prisoners before turning back to Leran with a confused look on his face. “I thought the prophecy only spoke of one female, not three!” Read more

“How dare you!” Snape roared. The smash of glass against stone made Harry flinch. “You beastly—awful—terrible—” Snape apparently didn’t have sufficient words. Read more

BY LAWRENCE “MACK” HALL Where Peter was, there also was the Tomb — blood-sodden dreams cold-rotting in old sin, the Chalice left unwashed. Read more

BY ANNA RAJAGOPAL Our Lord raised that voice which had once inspired hundreds with the power of divinity in a weak appeal. He pleads: ‘I thirst!’ Read more

Days later Gabriel’s voice reaches her again. She hears him talking with a young man whom he called Michael. Oh, yes, Joyce thinks, Michael is the name of my first baby boy, who is now nine years old. How I wish I could see him. Read more

She was restless in Mass, a three-years’ child And in her patient father’s loving arms She wriggled She squiggled She giggled Read more

“And all because of a boy,” sneered Sakiri. Tamika jumped up and banged on the wall. “That boy was my brother! He was only ten years old! Ten years old, Sakiri! But did you care? No! You and this stupid vendetta against all men is driving me up a wall!” screamed Tamik Read more

““Can my friends come and visit sometime this summer?”” Read more

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Pontius Pilate is not portrayed as a menacing monster or two-dimensional villain, but as the image of fallen mankind. Read more

Notre Dame, why do you cry? Notre Dame, what are you trying to say? Will you be born again anew Like your Master on Easter Sunday? Read more

BY AMANDA A. KLECKNER What better way to relax on a beautiful spring Easter day than to act like a hobbit and enjoy good food and great company. Read more