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Pilate and Claudia
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “They say let justice be done, though the heavens may fall…but why should they fall on our heads?”
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Jesus of Nazareth: Easter Classic Is Still Better Than Creepy Robots
BY KEVIN MICHAEL DERBY Four decades after it was first released, Jesus of Nazareth holds up well for the most part.
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Easter Vigil, Sort Of
BY LAWRENCE “MACK” HALL A vigil, no, simply quiet reflection minutes before midnight, with all asleep.
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All Things New: A Passiontide Reflection
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI But like no other conquest, it was in dying, it was in being conquered, that the tables were turned.
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Spy Wednesday
BY BROTHER RICHARD HENDRICK We turn our back on Him, on Love, and allow the callous clinking of coin to fall upon the floor.
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St. John Paul II: The Heroic Pope
BY BISHOP ROBERT BARRON As all of his biographers remind us, Karol Wojtyla came of age at one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century.
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O What Can Ail Thee?: A Harry Potter Story
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “You should know by now, with your claim at a keen intellect, that not all things in this world are obvious upon first glance.”
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The Start of Russia’s Long Lent: An Appreciation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Red Wheel”
BY KEVIN MICHAEL DERBY The powers of redemption and love flow through the book despite the chaos, despite the coming Soviet horror.
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Shake On It: A Harry Potter Story
BY LAUME “You allowed me only tidbits of information about my parents, and now you tell me it wasn’t even true?”
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Song of Exiles: A Reflection on the New York City Draft Riots of 1863
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI It will be a song that makes all hearts one, and makes all eyes see kinship in the eyes of others.
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Happiness and Resolution: Lent as a Reset Button
BY EMILY GEERLING Lent really is something to be happy about because it is a time in the liturgical year specifically designed for us to refresh our souls.
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Pity for a Creature Dark as Darkness: Bilbo’s Encounter with Gollum in “The Hobbit”
BY ANNE MARIE GAZZOLO Gollum had no sword. Gollum had not actually threatened to kill him, or tried to yet. And he was miserable, alone, lost.
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Kingdom Come: Five Spiritual Exercises for Lent
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Reflect upon how you yourself are going to reflect God’s love in your own life, to make His ‘Kingdom Come’.
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Star of the Sea: Marian Devotion through the Prism of a Medieval Hymn to the Virgin
I find particular inspiration in the soaring poetry of the Middle Ages in honor of the Virgin and believe it to be a wonderful method of sharing the Catholic understanding of Mary’s place in the Christian life and why we pay her homage.
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All Are His Children: A Harry Potter Story
BY SHEANKELOR “Just as He gave the gifts to His Apostles on the first Pentecost, He has granted them to you.”
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Whimsical Wonders and Stellar Surprises: Mixing and Mingling with a Constellation of Fantasy and Sci-Fi Celebrities
THE TRAVELING TROUBADOR The following year, we met another sci-fi child of a famous film and theater family. Her name was Drew Blythe Barrymore.
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Saint Robert Southwell
“O pray for us, poor brave seeker of souls…”
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Portrait of an Invisible Girl
“It’s like I’m part of the background. Their eyes just gloss over me. It’s like they can’t differentiate between me and the wallpaper. Is this what it is like to be invisible? Am I invisible?”