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The End of March
Stands of bearded iris, purple in mourningSpring up, early, among their cool green speartips,Pale and pointed, palmlike, though no one’s picked them,Criss-crossed the fronds, blessed, behind a crucifix.Still two...
Children’s Books and the Christian Story
It is one thing to talk about the Resurrection. It is quite another to see the Easter fire struck in the night, the candle lit, the light of Christ...
Tomie dePaola’s Icons
Real artists don’t copy.” Tomie dePaola, the children’s author and illustrator who died last week at age eighty-five, once recalled this counsel given him as a child of four...
Epiphany
He tells himself a tale his grandmother told:Babuschka sleeps by the fire. Outside new snowLaps the window. Camels look in from the cold.Wise-crowned kings—they know her name—say, GoWith us,...
First Sunday
In Advent, the hermit lights a candle-end,Drips wax onto a saucer, stands it there.The early nightfall forms itself aroundThis little shivering flame. He says his prayer:Stir up Thy power,...
Not Duffers, Won’t Drown
These stories are all about unsupervised children,” my oldest daughter observed years ago, when we were reading Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons books aloud, one after another, books in...
Newman’s Unusual Feast Day
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The Close of the Day
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Terror Plot Against the Pope?
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Who Are These People?
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The Social Commentary of Ice Cream Ads
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Foster Child
Everywhere she goes, he goes. She’s brought him here for Sunday tea. He’s been with me two weeks , she says and deftly shifts him on her knee. The...
The Killer Instinct
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Snow Weather
A falcon on a wire Against the laden sky Scanned his brown empire With a black-ice eye. Nothing beneath him stirred In that sunless instant But my heart, for...
The Drama of Hallowmas
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