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Just A Drop
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.
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Virtuous Venturing: The Hobbit
BY MARIE JEANETTE Throughout the story, Bilbo Baggins, the protagonist, grows in faith, hope, and love in turn.
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Lost Time: Chapter 6
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.
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Jack North’s Case
“Hiccup, Black’s moving,” whispered Jack. Hiccup glanced over Jack’s shoulder at the house, the light was definitely moving, and to the other side of the house.
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Creatures of Hobbit
BY HOPE BOLLINGER Yes, we’re hobbit and human too, heroes the world never saw coming up the misty mountains.
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Springtime with Tolkien: A Seasonal Reflection on Stratford Caldecott’s “The Power of the Ring”
BY DANNY OSCAR RUTILLIO Through myth, through poetry, Tolkien has evoked a feeling beyond words that comes from the deepest levels of our nature.
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The Fellowship of the King
You must not take this lightly, friend. Although you are dreaming, the invitation is quite real.
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A Meditation on Meeting Souls Gone By
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI I’m the kind of person who must “meet” people. It is the only way I can know them, living or dead.
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Emmaus Isn’t on the Map
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
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The Burning of Hobera Chapter 1: Kidnapping
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!”
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Harry Potter and the Pain of Revenge: Chapter 1
“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.
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A Saturday Morning in the Bookstore
BY LAWRENCE HALL Why are there now so many books of lists of ten things we must do before we die?
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Shakespeare Aboard the Enterprise
BY LAWRENCE “MACK” HALL There are no Methodists in Star Trek. Nor are there any Baptists or Catholics or Jews.
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Ubi Petrus
BY LAWRENCE “MACK” HALL Where Peter was, there also was the Tomb — blood-sodden dreams cold-rotting in old sin, the Chalice left unwashed.
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The Trinity of Truths in “I Thirst!”
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!’
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Lost Time: Chapter 5
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.
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A Three-Years’ Child
She was restless in Mass, a three-years’ child And in her patient father’s loving arms She wriggled She squiggled She giggled
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Jailhouse Reunion
“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
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Tolkien’s Heresy: Catholic Theology and the Origin Story of Middle Earth
BY GRANT HUDSON In Tolkien’s world Eru made an imperfect world which was doomed from the beginning.