The eBook 'Spoutings' is an insightful collection of 12 commentaries by William J Grimm, Publisher of UCA News. The essays discuss issues facing the world and the Church.William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News.Based in the United States, he regularly contrib...

The Catholic liturgical calendar is replete with feasts and celebrations that may or may not fall on Sundays. In this volume, Fr William Grimm complements his homilies for the annual cycles (A, B and C) with homilies for feasts that occur each year - some on fixed dates like Christmas and others on variable dates like the Easter Triduum.'

The Catholic liturgical calendar is replete with feasts and celebrations that may or may not fall on Sundays. In this volume, Fr William Grimm complements his homilies for the annual cycles (A, B and C) with homilies for feasts that occur each year. For us in the 21st Century, it is not enough simply to understand what the readings mean as those who composed them intended us to grasp. Our challenge and opportunity is to find out what they mean in our time and contexts two millennia later. ...

Jex Blackwell Saves the World is a Dadaesque homage to Donald Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series, or perhaps a Sobolesque homage to the Dada movement. The main character is a sixteen-year old punk with a secret genius for medicine and an equal passion for music; but life in her native Los Angeles home - filled with dark, gritty city streets and strange, sometimes desperate characters - is not easy.Emancipated from her abusive parents at fourteen and graduating high ...

The Seventh is a story of love. It is no more and no less twisted than any story of genuine love can be, and is therefore filled to the brim with lust, betrayal, hope and perhaps even a touch of remorse.

Homilies/Sermons for the weekly Sunday Cycle for Years A, B, and C and for principal feasts - Christmas, Holy Family, Easter, Corpus Christi etc. He tries to integrate contemporary biblical understandings with the challenges and opportunities presented by modern life so that people might see how the Gospel is indeed good news.

The Catholic Church lives on two lungs-Word and Sacrament. They reach their clearest expression and celebration for the Church's life in the Eucharist-the 'source and summit of the Church's life' as Vatican 2 puts it. Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years experience in Asia-mostly Japan, but Hong Kong and Cambodia as well. In that time he has come to deepen his understanding of the distinctiveness of the message and person of Jesus Christ even in circumstances and amo...

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Small-town publisher Arthur Crimes stumbles over the body of an elderly man at an isolated pond. As he tries to uncover the identity of the murderer, weeding through multiple suspects, he is assisted by his good friend, Eve, a popular true-crime writer who hopes to get a book deal out of the business. During a book fair in town that week, Arthur, Eve, and Arthur's girlfriend, Winnie, are continually surprised to learn the connections between some of the townspeople and the victim. ...

"Mother Holle" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Children's and Household Tales in 1812.It is a fairy tale about a sorceress from a well who rewards a hardworking girl and punishes a careless one.

Once upon a time, a poor woodman and his wife were so desperate for a child that they claimed they would be happy even with one no bigger than their thumb. This is what happened, and the boy they named Tom Thumb was smart and bright but would not grow any bigger no matter what or how much they fed him.Tom Thumb is a very little boy, who although he is just about the size of his father's thumb is very adventurous and his curiosity gets him into some difficult situations. With courage...

"Hansel and Gretel" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Grimms' Fairy Tales.The story is about two siblings, Hansel and Gretel, who are abandoned in the forest by their parents after their stepmother convinces their father to leave them in the woods because of famine. On their first attempt, they are able to find their way back home using a trail of pebbles. However, they fail the second time when they used a trail of breadcrumbs b...