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Cancer Patient
Though ill with cancer, I am here outdoors To walk slow steps and feel the warmth of spring. By chance, a nearby hermit thrush outpours His ecstasy to live,...
Catechism on the Road
A frosty sunlit Sunday morning. We, Still sleepy on our way to early Mass, Were snapped alert”sudden anxiety” As deer stepped from the trees intent to pass Across in...
Christianity Comes to Northumbria
According to England’s first historian, the Venerable Bede, King Edwin of seventh-century Northumbria pondered the question of whether he should adopt and extend throughout his reign the Christian faith...
