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It Tolls for Thee

“If you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God’s grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.” A father writing to his child, from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 2004. Page 52. “Never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it […]

The Cross and the Recliner

“The Pieta: the artistic depiction of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ after His body is taken down from the cross. The most famous is Michelangelo’s marble statue in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.”                                        […]