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The Spiritual Life: The Resurrection of the Body by Christopher Derrick, a Reflection

Authored by Peter Kreeft in Issue #5.3 of Catechetical Review
Peter Kreeft writes his own reflective poem on the following poem by Christopher Derrick: He's a terror, that one: Turns water into wine, Wine into blood— I wonder what He turns blood into?

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