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priest waits . . . At the Communion, Ecce Agnus Dei, the celebrant invites us to advance.., only then do we advance .... " The young man replied at once: "But I know churches where the people join...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1963)

BOOKS Critics' Choices for Christmas THOMAS CURLEY Let me begin with a quotation: "Hence, the search for motives, the demand that everybody display in public his innermost motivation, since it...

For Saint Brigid: A Poem (February 1961)

and European notions of formality fail to coincide. Moreover, by the closing days a number of Americans had caught the habit and were themselves reading off screeds composed for the occasion....

The Story of Balaam's Ass: A Poem (April 1960)

free to combat it." And following the Revolution, even the conservative Alexander Hamilton opposed the expurgatory oath which was designed to weed out the Tories in New York. Hamilton said that...

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week (February 1958)

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week ELIZABETH BARTELME T HE RED Book of the Persecuted Church. By Albert Galter. Newman. $5.75. An important and terrifying documentation of the Church in...

Critics' Choices of Catholic Books (February 1956)

Critics' Choices of Catholic Books ALBAN BAER ALL FOUR of these books brilliantly exemplify the Catholic humane tradition at its best. The Church of the Word Incarnarnate: An Essay in...

LINES FOR A FEAST OF OUR LADY (Verse) (June 1942)

Lines for a Feast of Our Lady What shall be added to your praises? The lip-worn, love-worn, heart-worn phrases centuries out of choir and cell and field and vineyard praise you well. Like bells...

TWO POEMS FOR CHRISTMAS (December 1938)

Two Poems for Christmas Mary of Nazareth M»ry Queen of Heaven is a mighty queen, but Mary of Nazareth was a queen no less, although Nazareth folk never dreamed they had seen in the...

Landscape with Children (Verse) (September 1938)

September 23, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 555 In regard to the station at Milan, here is a little American story. A lady and her small son came to Milan. The little boy admired the splendors of the...

All Night Long (verse) (June 1937)

AH Night Long All night long all night the birds run under the eyeless mountains of the moon; all night beating the cold air with a ghostly thunder, their wings rush on beneath the pale...

Afternoon in a Tree (verse) (September 1936)

September 11,1936 The Commonweal 461 Afternoon in a Tree If you have climbed a laden apple tree And worked your way through branches intertwined. You will excuse the prodigality Of flickers,...

Mother of Silence (verse) (May 1936)

99 Mother of Silence Magdalen sought Christ in the dawnlit garden, And found—sweet flowering of the promised seed— The Word of God, the Mighty One, the strong Love risen indeed. Strange that...

Late September (verse) (October 1935)

Late September Here in this place the asters blow noiseless In the warm wind. The leaves fall without sound. Birds flit on the dry boughs and motionless The squirrels sit with curved tails, and...

San Marco Museum, Florence (verse) (July 1935)

San Marco Museum, Florence San Marco was as quiet on that day In the deep shadow of its cedar tree As an old shrine. Pale, yellow sunlight lay Across the cloister garth, and one could...

Out of Some Shining Brightness (verse) (September 1933)

466 THE COMMONWEAL September 15, 1933 flowers. The round plaza before her door is down a narrow grey street, flower...

Autumn, Paray-le-Monial (verse) (November 1931)

8 THE COMMONWEAL November 4, 1931 Autumn, Paray-le-Monial I can remember how in that old town the yellow leaves of the plane tree fell in showers, great yellow plane leaves drifting,...

Sonnets (October 1929)

646 THE COMMONWEAL October 23, 1929 ml 1,, SONNETS gdYa land October Land of the purple apples and fat churns, Ripe hermitage of hardihood and peace, Home to your harvest hills my...

Apocalypse XVIII (verse) (December 1928)

December 26, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 229 as thirty years ago. The actual reconstruction of cism is championed,...

Poems (April 1928)

The Watchman A watchman of dawn went walking by, Walking beautifully through the glow; Swinging his lantern along the sky, Swinging it high and low. I heard his voice in my faraway...

Stella, Sisters Maris

Stepanchev, Stephen

Stephanie, Sister Mary

Stephenson, Shelby

Sterling, George

Stern, Alexander

Stern, Christina

Stern, Daniel

Stern, David

Stern, Herold S.

Stern, Jessica

Stern, Karl