Swimming with ScapularsLoyola Press, 2010 - 288 страници 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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... Moviegoer (Plus a Trip to the Theater) 225 Flannery O'Connor and the Two-by-Four 239 The Light under the Bushel 250 The Best Thing in the World 268 acknowledgments I WOULD LIKE TO THANK the following people in CONTENTS xi.
... things, especially the life of faith and the habit of writing. My wife, Deirdre, for patience and support and a swift kick when I need it. My children, for being constant reminders of mercy and love. Mark and Lisa Lickona, for love and ...
... thing he sees is his scapular, dangling from a shard of broken glass. God is not mocked. As I felt the bare patch of skin on my chest where the wool square used to be, I thought of my own soul, itself weighted with sin. Was God finished ...
... things get really bad—when the low growl she makes when bearing down through the contraction gives way to a wavering cry, endlessly rising in pitch and volume—she cannot pray. She cannot even think. When I look at Deirdre in these ...
... thing there is—we can't beat him.” Still, by the time I won those markers, faith had begun to take hold. Our family watched the ballyhooed PBS series Cosmos. The host, Carl Sagan, was a professed nonbeliever who equated religious belief ...
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The Poisonous Tentacles of AntiAbortion Zealots | 31 |
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 |