... this week. Plus an update. Diane Tucker has a website called The Shy Museumgoer. I happen to love museums and am not shy about them, but never mind. She has gorgeous pictures on her website, and she wrote an article about Saint Joseph in November. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2023/11/01/why-look-at-paintings-of-saint-joseph/ Diane has a brief discussion of his depiction [...]
I went to the market and bought a chocolate tree. The day was bright but slightly overcast, with streaky clouds blowing along, high in the sky. I like the market best in bright sunshine but this was a pretty good second choice, and a lovely way to get my cloudy mind into fresh air. People [...]
State of the Writer in March I’ve been working on some serious sewing, since the Arlington Diocese seminarian class of 2025 is successfully steering through the last days before ordination as deacons. Next year, priests! God willing. Until I had close contact with a seminarian, I didn’t really understand deacons at all. We had a [...]
The Pillar, a Catholic newsletter, wrote a review of 'Cabrini', the movie, in the Tuesday, March 12, 2024 edition. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/st-fina-cabrini-and-bishop-birthdays Mr. Flynn wrote several screen-scrolls of explanation of all the other religious movies he didn’t like, and how he was hoping that this one would be different, and by the time he got there you [...]
I went to see the movie, “Cabrini” from Angel studios, over the weekend. Two thoughts dominate my reaction. I knew nothing about this truly great saint. Okay, I knew that she had been in Denver. I knew that she was Italian. I knew that she wanted to go to China, and was, instead, sent by [...]
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