Swimming with ScapularsLoyola Press, 2010 - 288 Seiten 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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... experience. “Nature, because nature makes storms, and storms are more powerful than God.” Three weeks later: “Dad, does God make tornadoes?' “That's a hard question. God does make nature, and nature operates according to certain laws ...
... experience a dark night of the soul, but I knew that great saints had suffered them. They had felt cut off from God, unable to find Him anywhere, and had persevered. Whatever the quality of my faith, I continued to practice ARE YOU ...
... experience corroborated his teaching. Perhaps because I lacked a predatory air, I ended up being friends with a number of girls, and I got to see up close the effects of at least one postcoital breakup. I saw that sex could do damage ...
... experience—that he heaped upon the enemies of the church. When I said I wanted to be a priest, Father told me to wait until the end of junior year, and if I was still interested, to come and see him about it again. A visiting priest ...
... experience of the scandal came years earlier. When I was about fourteen years old, I was kissed by a priest: Father Dave. The act did not have the character of an assault, but of a line crossed; he was affectionate with lots of ...
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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 |
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Swimming with Scapulars: True Confessions of a Young Catholic Matthew Lickona Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |