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Category: Spirituality

Lent 2013, Day 28: What Were Once Vices

A friend recently told me that he never was that interested in alcohol. Oh, he has the rare glass of wine or cocktail, but he wouldn’t care if someone told him he couldn’t have

Published March 12, 2013
Categorized as Catholicism, Friendship, Lent, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality

Lent 2013, Day 27: A Confession About Confession

I’m sure the elderly priest whose prodigal son homily I heard on Sunday meant well. But I daresay he hasn’t listened to as many “away” Catholics as I have. Confession. That was his key to any returning Catholic’s rekindling of faith. He urged us all

Published March 11, 2013
Categorized as Catholicism, Landings, Lent, Life in the 50s, Spirituality

Lent 2013, Day 26: An Open Letter to the Conclave

Dear Cardinals, I am among the least of your sisters in Christ. I was baptized Catholic, was catechized enough to receive the Sacraments of Reconciliation, the Eucharist, and Confirmation, then

Published March 10, 2013
Categorized as Catholicism, Landings, Lent, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality

Lent 2013, Day 25: No Fear in Love

A friend recently sent me one of those “forward this, it’s amazing” e-mail chain letters that I usually ignore–but not this time. It was a request to send the piece of Scripture that was

Published March 9, 2013
Categorized as Catholicism, Friendship, Lent, Life in the 50s, Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality

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