My computer developed a problem Monday night and it took all of Tuesday to figure it out. Also, the amazing grandchild was born and that distracted my thinking. I taught class on Monday and Tuesday and the report was, that the students said it hadn't been as bad as they had been afraid it would [...]
Category: Bible and catechism
Which Church father?
I have been chasing something I read about twenty-five years ago. I can’t remember it exactly but whoever it was wrote something like …people approached the temple, peered in to see its glory, then turned away rather than boldly entering and living there… . Me, paraphrasing ... The next few lines were commentary on this, [...]
Reading on many levels
When I was originally struggling with reading The Divine Comedy, I tried some of Dante’s other writings. Dante wrote up a whole system about how to read on more than one level and this, oddly, was a good entry point for me, because my mother had shared this system with a whole bunch of teenage [...]
What day is this?
I slept in four different places over the course of sixteen days. That's going to be my excuse for not figuring out what day it is and whether I've put up a post. Also, WordPress has done something to me, so that I have to reset the font every single time I start a new [...]
The Ascension: a Glorious mystery
I’ve never known what to make of the Ascension. I spent a lifetime wondering why it was a glorious mystery. Jesus Left! And He left his mother behind! Why is this a good thing? I’ve been listening to podcasts on the Catechism of the Catholic Church that promise to take you through the entire book [...]
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