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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... for good wine and good talk. And finally, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, on whose feast I was born, in whose church I was married, and upon whose intercession I rely. preface CHRISTMAS EVE OF 1992 found me just off the xiii Acknowledgments.
... talking to God. He is not asking for deliverance, not asking the baby to be born sooner than later. He is asking for acceptance—easy for him to ask. What kind of coldhearted man is this? What kind of cold- hearted God is receiving his ...
... talk of one crucifix being more beautiful than another; I am embarrassed to admit that I have never, with any regularity, taken the twenty minutes a day to say the prayers associated with the beads. The sense of faith didn't start there ...
... talk was full of disappointment and dismay at the state of the world. When he contrasted the old days—days when Sunday reception of communion required you to start fasting at midnight on Saturday—with the current policy of a mere one ...
... fraternal relation. In the end, we mended the rift (if not the disagreement) over a night's talk and a few shared rounds of bourbon at a restaurant bar. but tHAT WAS LATER. At twelve, Mark was still the ARE YOU STILL HAVING SEX? 15.
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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 |