Eric Scheske

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The 26th

Today is the Feast of St. Stephen. The good old Catholic Church loves its paradoxes: The day of intense joy followed by a day of sobering reality (with the bloody feasts of the Holy Innocents and Thomas Beckett coming shortly).

Joy and martyrdom, love and hatred of love, Everlasting Life and grisly death.

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