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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... girl to French kiss. I stuck to Truth and was generally left alone, which was how I wanted it. I didn't go to the pine trees to drop my pants or practice kissing. I went because it was exciting just to be close to anything 12 FORMATION ...
... girl.” I did this not because I possessed some secret understanding of sin in general or lust in particular, not because I had an especial fear of hell, but because that was the limit my brother had told me he employed. In those days ...
... girl. And if you've never tasted the forbidden fruit of sex, it's easier to contemplate never tasting it at all. By senior year, I was thinking of becoming a priest. There was some adolescent absolutism about my desire. I was eager to ...
... girls, and I got to see up close the effects of at least one postcoital breakup. I saw that sex could do damage. Athletic locker rooms gave me a chance to compare that girl's misery to the cheerful rut-talk of guys amongst themselves ...
... girls fine—I had even loved one—and I had my share of imaginary trysts with fantastic sirens. But I balked at even the thought of actual sex with an actual person. Too damaging—to both of us. Mark used to tease me that when married ...
תוכן
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31 | |
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 |