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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... .” AN UNHEALTHY ATTITUDE (and an un-Catholic one), born of too much time spent in an unhealthy clime. College was my saving grace here. I attended Thomas Aquinas College, a lay-founded Catholic ARE YOU STILL HAVING SEX? 19.
Matthew Lickona. grace here. I attended Thomas Aquinas College, a lay-founded Catholic liberal arts school with a curriculum built around the Great Books. The women I met and fell in love with there were not mousy prudes. To me, they ...
... grace of our Lord (though Lord knows, I never heard it put this way when I was growing up). The job of the church is to lead souls to heaven. The sacraments are the food for that journey, and we need priests for the sacraments ...
... grace or effectiveness. What happened after that was not a crime of passion, nor was it the ugly fruit of cool, malicious premeditation. It was just a nasty impulse, a minor eruption of original sin. I was sitting against the outside of ...
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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 |