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PRESENTS

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow

In Paradise Lost, when Satan looked upon his assembled rebels, “Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth.” The nature of angels has been long debated, but not their terrible beauty. From the archive, three authors reflect on the angelic.

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MARCH 1997 ● BY MARC GELLMAN

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The man who met Joseph was also an angel. In Judaism, it’s possible to be both at the same time.

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NOVEMBER 2020 ● BY DANA GIOIA

PSALM TO OUR LADY QUEEN OF THE ANGELS ([link removed])
Pray for us, mother of the mixed and misbegotten, / Beside our dry river and tents of the outcast poor.

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AUGUST 2021 ● BY HANS BOERSMA

ANGELIC DIET ([link removed])

Manna is the food of angels rather than of men.

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