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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... seemed, the fight was going to Satan. My father once had to sit me down for several pre- Christmas scoldings, asking me, “If God were sitting right here, what would you tell him you're going to try to do to prepare your heart for Jesus ...
... seemed outside the realm of obligation. I had first considered the priesthood based on the leanings of my heart. Now, my heart was leading me elsewhere. I was in love with a woman, and the idea of rejecting that love to make way for ...
... seemed to pious ears, was apparently widespread. But my particular experience of the scandal came years earlier. When I was about fourteen years old, I was kissed by a priest: Father Dave. The act did not have the character of an ...
... seemed less clear. But by the time I was twelve, Dad had come to understand the church's full teaching that, besides being a serious personal sin, abortion was a grave social injustice that we as citizens were obliged to oppose. I know ...
... seemed like only twenty seats. It was in the smallest of these that I saw my father split in two on-screen, the two disparate halves that find union in his persona separated and given life. The movie was Yves Robert's My Father's Glory ...
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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 |