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A Christmas Letter
Here’s a Christmas letter from a friend. Merry Christmas! Dear Randy, I hope this letter finds you doing well. Anna sends here greetings, as do Amy, Angie, and Amanda to your children. Lately, I have found myself in the malaise of the holiday season. I began with such high expectations,…
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O Dayspring
December 21 is the day in which the Great O Antiphon, O Oriens, is sung. It is also the winter solstice which is the shortest or darkest day in the Northern hemisphere. This sonnet is a reworking of a previous sonnet. Since our morning, we have watched the sunset In…
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O Wisdom II
I am reposting this because today, December 17, is Sapientia. This is a sonnet based upon the Great O Antiphon, O Sapientia which is sung on December 17. The antiphon reads, “O Wisdom, coming forth from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from one end to the other mightily,…
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Unshod, Thy Feet
This sonnet follows from this year’s Advent series, Where Are You? It is based on Exodus 3 where Moses comes to Mt Horeb and finds the Lord (or is found by the Lord). I have always been curious about what it is about shoelessness in the presence of holiness. As…
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