Professor Mazzotta lectures on the final cantos of Paradise (XXX-XXXIII). The pilgrim’s journey through the physical world comes to an end with his ascent into the Empyrean, a heaven of pure light beyond time and space. Beatrice welcomes Dante into the Heavenly Jerusalem, where the elect are ass...
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http://www.clarebyrneweeklyrites.blogspot.com/ Turn the tables to November: cool not cold, damp. Hilarious outburst is over. Now, sober rusts and coppers, with a few deep-yellow maples and birches, like the most luminescent Easter egg I could dye, or its yolk. The prayer begins: "Winter, hold me...
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The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson reflects on delivering the prayer at the presidential inauguration opening ceremony. He talks with WSJ's Steve Waldman.
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