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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... idea of sex still had tremendous appeal: I liked 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 ...
... idea of rejecting that love to make way for another seemed strange. If I had a vocation to the priesthood, I thought, shouldn't I want to be a priest? Shouldn't there be a nagging, inescapable force at work on my will, a sense that I ...
... idea is that the laity have been called upon to act as full members of the Body of Christ, to do His work and spread His gospel and not simply look to priests and religious to transform the world. If outrage gives way to despair in our ...
... idea took hold. At dinner, he read the letters from our foster children overseas, as well as the solicitations from charities such as Oxfam America, Amnesty International, and Covenant House. When I was six, our family heard a priest at ...
... idea that science will eventually explain everything. Religion to him is superstition, the enemy of reason and truth. He is outraged by the idea of the Eucharist, of God in a wafer and a cup, consumed all over the world at Mass. Joseph ...
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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 |