Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies
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Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies

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Oct 03, 2023
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“Give up all hope to look upon the skies!” cries the old boatman Charon to the souls who have gathered at the shores of the swampy river, to be ferried across to You Know Where. It’s not a good day for them. In Dante’s Italian, which is the language that that line comes from, you have the same word for “heaven” as for “sky,” and so it is in German and…

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