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Archive: August 2013

Suffering and Purpose

A collection of links on a Saturday night. 1. Suffering and Suffering Well, a beautiful homily from Father Philip Powell, OP My point? I had been in constant pain for almost four months, and I grieved my loss of independence. But I had yet to suffer...

Assumption

About the Icon of the Dormition (so worth reading!) Blessed Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary! (or of the Dormition of the Theotokos to my Eastern and Orthodox brethren) As we usually do on Holy Days, our family went to the 8:15...

And the days are not full enough

“And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.” —Ezra Pound I just bought The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry, a collection edited by Seamus...

The Christian Working Woman

When we get up in the morning, the duties and cares of the day will crowd in on us, if they have not already driven away the peace of the night. This is when we need to get things under control and say: Calm down! None of this must touch me now. My...

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine

“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!” ― Hilaire Belloc Eight years ago today…. We threw a really big party and invited a bunch of friends and...

Anthony the Engineer

Anthony is turning into quite the builder. I’ve been very impressed with his block structures recently. He says this is bunk beds. “This my bed. This Ben’s.” Now he got the idea of bunk beds from Sophie, who makes them...

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