Job 42:11-12a – 11: Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread […]

Esther 10: King Ahasuerus laid tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea. All the acts of his power and might, and […]

Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 – 13: Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king, who will no longer take advice. One can […]

Lamentations 3:55-57 – 55: I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit; you heard my plea, “Do not close your […]

Ruth 1:15-17 – 15: So she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” But […]

Christians down through the ages have been scandalized by the fact that sitting in the middle of our canonical tradition is a frankly explicit love poem.

Job 38:31-33 – 31: “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in […]

According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near […]

“Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And […]

“It took the sea a thousand years, A thousand years to trace The granite features of this cliff, In crag and scarp and base. “It […]

“I know what brought that expression to her face. During one of her sittings Leo said to her, “You know, Mona you’re very intelligent for […]

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a […]

Christmas is celebrated by people on every continent, and every people has special music, food and customs. Not everyone celebrates the same way, or at […]

Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” tells of a disabled boy who walks with a crutch, and tells tall tales. Late one […]

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree, How steadfast are your branches! Your boughs are green in summer’s clime And through the snows of wintertime. O […]

“What can I give him, poor as I am? If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb. If I were a wise man, […]