The Poetry Patch: Recent Episodes

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Poetry touches our deepest emotions. It can stir us to action, or bring us peace. We invite you join our talented readers, and enjoy whatever poem you pick.

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Each leaf of the clover has a meaning behind it according to Ella Higginson’s poem, “Four-Leaf Clover.” Listen to hear what she suggests and where the clover grows. Read by Dana Flowers. Our Audio Engineer was Jacob Gorsich. A Production of We Are One Body® Audio Theatre.

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As seasons change, so do the sounds within nature. Listen as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describes what he hears in his poem, “Woods in Winter.” Read by Paul Fox. Audio Technician Jacob Gorsich. A Production of We Are One Body® Audio Theatre.

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Listen to the ’s poem, “The Three Kings” that describes the visitors from afar who came to see Jesus at the time of his birth. Read by Pat Conroy. Audio technician was Jacob Gorsich. A Production of We Are One Body® Audio Theatre.

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Reflect on how you view change in your life as you listen to Theresa Arnette read Robert Frost’s poem The Lockless Door.

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Listen to one of William Shakespeare’s most famous and romantic works as Theresa Arnette reads Sonnet 18.

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Listen to this lively reading of the traditional children’s poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas, written by Clement Clark Moore and read by David Seremet.

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A poem written by Thomas Moore that describes the Angel of Charity dwelling above in heaven with a smile of love. Read by Dana Flowers.

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This poem describes how Little Orphant Annie teaches children how to be on their best behavior so the "goblins" don't get them. Written by James Whitcomb Riley and read by Paul Fox.

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Listen to Shakespeare's St Crispin's Day Speech from "The Life of King Henry V." Act 4 Scene 3 King Henry V. inspires and rallies his army through his description of glory and honor. Read by Dennis Jerz

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J.R.R. Tolkien writes of one using their imagination as they gaze upon the beauty of nature around them. Read by Paul Fox.

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Listen to Bob and Maria Kocisko recite one of the most beloved patriotic poems of the United States that was written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1893.

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A poem by Francis Scott Key that was inspired by the flag that survived the battle of 1812 at Fort McHenry. Read by Paul Fox.

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A simple request to the Lord, to lead on a journey from the darkness to the light. Fr. Stephen West reads this poem by St. John Henry Newman.

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Take some time to enjoy the snow. Listen to this Robert Frost poem read by Tony Chiappetta.

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This beautiful Christmas poem, tells of all of those who came to visit the newborn Jesus. Written by Sara Teasdale and read by Hyery Hwang.

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A request for a peaceful death, not surrounded by friends, but surrounded by the Lord and the Blessed Mother. Jason Leikam reads this John Henry Newman poem.

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The great archangel, St. Michael, is captured in this poem by John Henry Newman and read by Chris Paluzzi.

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Love the Lord by loving all of God's children. Edward Roberts reads this Henry Wadsorth Longfellow poem.

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Dana Rizzo reads this poem about the Blessed Mother and her assumption to heaven. Written by St. Alphonsus de Liguori.

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Cate Stuart reads this beautiful poem by John Henry Newman.

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Two brothers. Two apostles. Two saints. Listen as Tony Chiappetta reads this poem by John Henry Newman.

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Matthew Wojtechko reads this encapsulating poem about sunshine, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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A telling poem about a search for freedom. Written by Vivekananda and read by Jason Leikam.

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Paul Fox reads this original poem by Margaret Delle.

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Dana Rizzo reads this encouraging poem by John Henry Newman.

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Scott Walton reads this poignant poem about Memorial Day by Alfred Joyce Kilmer.

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May is Mary's month. Listen as Tony Chiappetta reads this lovely poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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The fire of the Holy Spirit is powerful. Listen to this William Blake poem read by Michael Steele.

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Reflect on the Lord Jesus Christ ascending to heaven in this beautiful poem by John Donne and read by Paul Fox.

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This short poem offers a beautiful and succinct glimpse into the life of the Virgin Mary. Tony Chiappetta reads this poem by Charles Leo O'Donnell.

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Parent's worry about their children. Mary and Joseph were no different. Listen to their thoughts captured in this poem by Frances Chesterton and read by Elizabeth and Albert Saenz.

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Shana M. Buck reads Easter Wings by George Herbert.

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How is the resurrection of Christ viewed from the perspective of the angel's in heaven? Find out in this beautiful Robert Fletcher poem that is read by Elizabeth Saenz.

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The life of Mary Magdalene is traced by this Charles Wesley hymn and read by Dana Rizzo.

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A beautiful retreat will not outdo the beautiful sacrifice of one man for the whole world. Listen as Edward Roberts reads this poem by Oscar Wilde.

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Elizabeth Saenz reads Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh by Frances Chesterton

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The message of an angel declared to Lord's handmaid. And from her yes, came the savior of the world. Dana Rizzo, John Walker and Carolyn Jerz lend their voices to David Michael Belczyk's adaptation of this great moment in salvation history.

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Edward Roberts reads To St. Joseph by Charles Leo O'Donnell.

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Shana M. Buck reads Christ's Bloody Sweat by Robert Southwell.

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Michael Thimons reads Jonah, by John Henry Newman.

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Dana Rizzo reads Confession by George Herbert

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Tony Chiappetta reads A Thunderstorm by Emily Dickinson.

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Michael Thimons reads St. Gregory Nazienzen by John Henry Newman.

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Dennis Jerz reads Candlemas by John Henry Newman.

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Albert Saenz reads Joseph, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Dana Rizzo reads A Child's Song of Christmas, by Marjorie L.C. Pickthall.

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Michael Steele reads Isaac, by John Henry Newman.

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Cate Stuart reads Rosa Mystica, by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Mariah Betz reads Little Tree, by E.E. Cummings.

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Jason Leikam reads Father We Thank Thee, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Tony Chiappetta reads Trees, by Alfred Joyce Kilmer.

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Asher Yautz reads Soldier From the Wars Returning, by A.E. Housman

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Shana M. Buck reads For the Dead, by John Henry Newman

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Elizabeth Saenz reads The Lantern Out of Doors by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Tony Chiappetta reads Intercession of the Saints by John Henry Newman.

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Michael Thimons reads Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton

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Jason Leikam reads Guardian Angel by John Henry Newman

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Chris Paluzzi reads Summer Shower by Emily Dickinson.

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Christopher Ouellete reads The Dying Christian to His Soul by Alexander Pope

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Albert and Elizabeth Saenz read She Who Sleeps by Grettelyn Darkey

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Jason Leikam reads I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

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Shana Buck reads Here is The Little Door by Frances Chesterton

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Chris Paluzzi reads Carol by Kenneth Grahame

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Sean Reilly reads Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry by Watl Whitman

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Tony Chiappetta reads I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

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Peter and Carolyn Jerz read Only a Dad by Edgar Guest

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Jean Pistentis reads Grandmothers Battle of Bunker Hill as She Saw it from the Belfry by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Mariah Betz reads A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson

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Margie Barish reads A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever by John Keats

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Mariah Betz reads A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

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Peter Wojtechko reads The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams

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Dana Rizzo reads Resurrection by Sidney Lanier

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Grettelyn Darkey reads The Calvary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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John Wojtechko reads Ode On the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7000 Pounds

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Paul Fox reads St. Patrick's Day by Jean Blewett

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Michael Steele reads If by Rudyard Kipling

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Paul Fox reads The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service

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Tony Chiappetta reads The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens

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Dana Rizzo reads Valentine's Day by Emily Dickinson

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Dana Rizzo reads Saint Valentine's Day 1881 by Christina Rossetti

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Tony Chiappetta reads The Year by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Michael Thimons reads The New Year's Morning by Helen Hunt Jackson

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Tony Chiappetta reads Mistletoe by Walter de La Mare

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Rhiannon Owen reads Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Peter Wojtechko reads The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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John Wojtechko reads The Spirits of the Dead by Edgar Allan Poe

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Dennis Jerz reads the Saint Crispin's Day Speech from "Henry V" by William Shakespeare

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Nancy McKinnon reads Autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Michael Thimons reads Merry Autumn by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Mariah Betz reads If You Were Coming in the Fall by Emily Dickinson

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Grettelyn Darkey and John Wojtechko read A Collection of Poems by Matsuo Basho

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She Was a Prune, written and read by Eva Rainforth

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John Wojtechko reads To Phoebe by W.S. Gilbert

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Grettelyn Darkey reads Sonnet 14 by William Shakespeare

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Paul Fox reads Where They Lived by Thomas Hardy

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Eva Rainforth reads What Father Knows by Edgar Guest

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Mariah Betz reads Success is Counted Sweetest by Emily Dickinson

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Michael Thimons reads Pain in Loving by Robert Mangan

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Mariah Betz reads Hope is a Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson

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Grettelyn Darkey reads Dear March - Come In by Emily Dickinson

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Nataly Smyntek Castillo reads Spring Stream by Grettelyn Darkey

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Joe Potts reads Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer

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Rhiannon Owen reads When a Merry Maiden Marries by W.S. Gilbert

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Jacob Gorsich reads When You Are Old by W.B. Yeats

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Rhiannon Owen reads The Steinway Sonnet by Grettelyn Darkey

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Paul Fox reads Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The Finding at the Temple - St. Joseph, written and read by Paul Fox

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Elizabeth Saenz reads Mary of Nazareth by Julianne Leonard

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Bobbie Borgo reads The Wise Men by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Margie Barish reads A Christmas Carol (In the Bleak Midwinter) by Christina Rossetti

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Margie Barish reads The House of Christmas by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Edward Roberts reads A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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Bobbie Borgo reads Gold Leaves by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Paul Fox reads God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The Ballad of Bad Biruk, written and read by Paul Fox

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To Our Unborn Grandchild, written and read by Paul Fox

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He Didn't See, written and ready by Paul Fox

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Margie Barish reads The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

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Bobbie Borgo reads The Last Leaf by Paul Fox

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Grettelyn Darkey reads A Ballad of Suicide by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Margie Barish reads The Son of Man Comes as a Thief by Paul Fox

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Anna Parrish reads Maria of the Meadow by Paul Fox

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Tony Chiappetta reads Gratefulness by George Herbert

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Alejandra Castillo Smyntek

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Albert Saenz reads Epitaph by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Eva Rainforth reads My Mistress's Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun by William Shakespeare

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Rhiannon Owen reads We Grow Accustomed to the Dark by Emily Dickinson

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Mariah Betz reads A Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish by Robert Burns

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Joe Potts reads Sonnet 01 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Tony Chiappetta reads The May Magnificat by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Grettelyn Darkey reads A Better Resurrection

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Christopher Reibold reads Annas by Julianne Leonard

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Jean Pistentis reads Mary Magdalene by Julianne Leonard

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Albert Saenz reads Dismas by Julianne Leonard

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Leigh Anne Jerz reads Veronica by Julianne Leonard

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Margie Barish reads A Woman From Jerusalem by Julianne Leonard

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Paul Fox reads Pontius Pilate by Julianne Leonard

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Dennis Jerz reads Nicodemus by Julianne Leonard

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Bobbi Borgo reads The Woman at the Well by Julianne Leonard

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Anna Parrish reads Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare

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Eva Rainforth reads Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson

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Elizabeth Saenz reads The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell

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A Toddler's Christmas, written and read by Elizabeth Saenz

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Grettelyn Darkey reads One Day is There of the Series by Emily Dickinson

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Albert Saenz reads The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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Michael Thimons reads The Graveyard Shift by Sean Fitzpatrick

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Michael Thimons reads Lepanto by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Dana Rizzo reads Claudio Procula by Julianne Leonard

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Dana Rizzo reads The Woman at the Well by Julianne Leonard

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Alejandra Castillo Smyntek reads Beauty is Vain by Christina Rossetti

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Grettelyn Darkey reads A Hymn for Lauds on Sunday by John Henry Newman

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Alejandra Castillo Smyntek reads Encouraged by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Nataly Smyntek Castillo reads Dawn by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Lawrence Cuda reads Warnings by John Henry Newman

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McKenna Brackney reads We Have a Little Garden by Beatrix Potter

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Grettelyn Darkey reads The Month of Mary by John Henry Newman

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Lawrence Cuda reads The Contrite Heart by William Cowper

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Michael Thimons reads The Gift of Perseverance by John Henry Newman

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Nataly Smyntek Castillo reads All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Francis Alexander

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Christopher Reibold reads Saint Patrick Was a Welshman by Grettelyn Darkey

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Megan Brackney reads A Call to Prayer by Clara M. Brooks

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Grettelyn Darkey reads I Loved You First by Christina Rossetti

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McKenna Brackney reads God Who Made the Earth by Sarah Betts Rhodes

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Grettelyn Darkey reads Christmas Guardians by Sean P. Dailey

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Megan Brackney reads How Far Is It to Bethlehem? by Frances Chesterton

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Philip Marinchak reads Nativity Song by Sophie Jewett

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Father Stephen West reads Thursday by Elizabeth Saenz

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Father Stephen West reads The Treasure Chest by Elizabeth Saenz

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The Siege, written and read by Elizabeth Saenz

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The Wicker Children, written and read by Elizabeth Saenz

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Michael Thimons reads When I Have Fears by John Keats

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Michael Thimons reads To a Cat by John Keats

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Grettelyn Darkey reads The Junk Box by Edgar Albert Guest

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Albert Saenz reads I See His Blood Upon the Rose by Joseph Mary Plunkett

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Albert Saenz reads Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

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Albert Saenz reads The Thorn by Alfred Joyce Kilmer

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Albert Saenz reads The Return of Spring by Charles D'Orleans, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Grettelyn Darkey reads Easter by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Grettelyn Darkey reads Easter Communion by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Grettelyn Darkey reads Good Friday by Christina Rossetti

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Grettelyn Darkey reads The Donkey by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Michael Marinchak reads Saint Patrick's Breastplate by Saint Patrick

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Michael Thimons reads Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Michael Thimons reads Repentance by George Herbert

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Michael Thimons reads Cupid Armed by Thomas Moore

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Grettelyn Darkey reads her poem, She Who Sleeps

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Grettelyn Darkey reads A Child of the Snows by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Father Stephen West reads Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Father Stephen West reads The Saddest Noise by Emily Dickinson

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Father Stephen West reads The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson

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Father Stephen West reads After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson

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Fr. Steph West reads Thanksgiving, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Fr. Stephen West reads The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Wittier

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Fr. Stephen West reads The Harvest Moon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow