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Breath (Poem by Luci Shaw)
By Polly Castor on December 27, 2025Read moreWhen, in the cavern darkness, Jesus opened his small, bleating mouth (even before his eyes widened to the supple world...
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With Those for Whom There is No Room (Quote by Thomas Merton)
By Polly Castor on December 24, 2025Read moreInto this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes...

Do Not Believe in Walls (Quote by Jörg Zink)
By Polly Castor on December 23, 2025Read moreIf we open them and enter, we can unlock ourselves, too, and so await whatever is coming to free...

Advent Darkness (quote by Fleming Rutledge)
By Polly Castor on December 21, 2025Read moreAdvent bids us to take a fearless inventory of the darkness: the darkness without and the darkness within.

Advent (quote by Alfred Delp)
By Polly Castor on December 15, 2025Read moreIt is time to waken from sleep. A waking up must begin somewhere. It is time to put things...
