Swimming with ScapularsLoyola Press, 2010 - 288 עמודים Meet Matthew Lickona, a thirty-something wine columnist, sometime cartoonist, avid moviegoer, fan of alternative rock, and wonderfully talented writer. He is also a devoutly religious young man ("I am a Roman Catholic, baptized as an infant and raised in the faith, a faith which holds the exemplary and redemptive suffering of Jesus Christ at its core." ) who fasts during Lent, leads his family in prayer every day, and wears a scapular--a medieval amulet said to protect the wearer from harm. |
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... Sunday. How sad I was at age four when our family stopped attending Mass at the Newman Center at Cortland State, the upstate New York university where my father teaches, and began filling a pew at St. Mary's, a gray stone Gothic at the ...
... Sunday mornings, something besides an altogether ordinary part of our lives? I remember my second year of CCD classes, the religious education program for Catholic kids who didn't attend St. Mary's parochial school. There, at seven, I ...
... Sunday reception of communion required you to start fasting at midnight on Saturday—with the current policy of a mere one-hour fast, a policy that allowed people to receive “with the smell of alcohol still on their breath,” his rage was ...
... Sundays and fish on Fridays. I was not raised in an environment that spent time distinguishing between the faithful and those outside the fold, so I had never given much thought to the faith of my friends. As far as I knew, none of them ...
... Sunday, there the next. Priests come from families. The families of those who oppose celibacy—and hesitate over obedience in general—will likely not produce many priests to replace the current ranks. Those families that support and ...
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Begging the Sun to Dance | 46 |
Triddywackers Tinkerers and the Roar of the Crowd | 62 |
Deirdre | 93 |
Do You Need to Be a Paterfamilias? | 106 |
Sex and the Outrageous Principle | 116 |
Why So Many? | 125 |
Alms for a Drink | 165 |
In Which We Go Parish Hopping | 175 |
Hand Holding and Other Distractions | 188 |
The World | 195 |
the Flesh and the Devil | 209 |
Dredging My Soul for Sin | 218 |
The Moviegoer Plus a Trip to the Theater | 225 |
Flannery OConnor and the TwobyFour | 239 |
The Roach and the Woman | 134 |
Not Home Until We Die | 143 |
Boy Meets God | 151 |
The Best Thing in the World | 268 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Swimming with Scapulars: True Confessions of a Young Catholic <span dir=ltr>Matthew Lickona</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |