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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... as fast as Olivia, our third (seventy- five minutes from the time the contractions woke Deirdre from sleep), but much faster than our first two. Ninety minutes is not a long time as hard labor goes, but mind-blowing The Janitor Prophet.
Matthew Lickona. not a long time as hard labor goes, but mind-blowing pain has a way of stretching time out, so it didn't feel all that short to Deirdre. My wife has delivered all four of our children without medication. She does this ...
... hard question. God does make nature, and nature operates according to certain laws, and sometimes those laws produce a tornado.” “I still think nature is more powerful than God.” I wondered about the outcome of a battle between Jesus ...
... hard to say how much of that conviction was religious and how much was the Irish propriety I absorbed from my mother. By seventh grade, however, when the couples started pairing off and “going down,” as we called it, there was a ...
... hard. I was afraid at the force of his argument, but I no longer felt the priesthood's tug on my soul. What I felt was earthly love for a good woman. By the end of junior year—the time Father Steckler had set for me to talk to him about ...
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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 |