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Love is Not an Accident
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Love is not an accident of chemicals that crossed in space; it flows from Everlasting Choice and rushes with a Timeless Grace.
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A Mother’s Love
BY ELLEN VIRGINIA We’ve longed for you in ages past. Can it be true You’ve come at last? I wonder still how this can be? Why have you selected me?
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Holiday Season in the Holy Land: Thoughts, Ideas, and Tips on Travel
BY DAVID HAMBURGER Regardless of how the time is spent, a trip to the Holy Land is undoubtedly a singular and deeply memorable opportunity.
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December Morning Message: A Sestina with an Extra Verse
BY MARY-FAUSTINA Before leukemia took her, my wife bought me this coat. For a year now, the grief’s surface has stayed three feet overhead.
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The Legend of Holly Claus: A Book Review
BY KAT CLEMENTS It’s a delightful expanded fairy-tale with a dash of Dickens, a dollop of romance, and a hearty helping of wonder.
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Flight of the Angels
BY MARY-FAUSTINA They rise up in tornadic flight, unleashing scarlet firelight. They pour it on the coal-cloaked hills, the bloodless frosts.
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Our Love Must Make Us Strong: The Music and Mysticism of Loreena McKennitt
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Unlike some other Celtic singers, she does not succumb to musical clannishness but uses her roots to branch out into new dimensions.
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Cantate Alleluia (Sing Alleluia)
BY EMERALD Christ is born today; sing Alleluia! He has come to save us; sing Alleluia! Rejoice, nations of the world! Your King is with you now.
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Come Quick! Real Elves!: A Human’s Wistful Reflections on the Immortals of Middle-Earth
BY MARY-FAUSTINA Elves are, simply put, stunning to the point of unfairness, made manifest especially by the directors and designers of The Lord of the Rings.
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For Those Who Know: A Thanksgiving Day Poem
BY MARY-FAUSTINA Well and ill, we all partake of Your heart’s fires; a billion hungers, yet Your peace fills all desires.
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Book Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth
BY UNA VAN DER STROOM Divergent, released in 2011, is the first book in a YA dystopian/science-fiction trilogy by author Veronica Roth.
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Election Trivia
BY MEGAN DOMINICK Which president would occasionally press all the buttons on the desk, then hide and watch the staff run into the room?
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The Flame of Autumn
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Be the flame of autumn in this changing, chilling world and in my trembling heart.
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Even: Aragorn’s Promise to Arwen at the Black Gate
BY MARY-FAUSTINA My love, that star has shattered and the sky sours black. The wind whips upon me as I ride on towards hell.
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The Only One: A Poem Dedicated to Homeless Veterans
BY CLARE-THERESE Am I the only one who notices your hands, chilled with the homeless nights, blistered from the trigger?
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Ever Vigilant
BY ELIZABETH TROUP Her feet crunched against the autumn leaves, the “crunch” the only sound for miles. The fog…she knew the fog was coming.
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More than Memory
BY CLARE-THERESE And do survivors ever learn to feel the joy their fight should earn, to view the world again as a child, when alone from darkness they return?
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An Inspiration for My Life: The Story of St. Gianna Molla
BY ELLEN VIRGINIA I chose St. Gianna for my Confirmation name simply because she was a mother, as I hope to be someday.