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God can Extract Gold from the Griefs of the Past

Anita Mathias — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:17:13 +0000

There is always another one walking beside you T.S. Eliot Wasteland Emmaus, by Slovenian Jesuit Marco Rupnik from HolyArt.com So, the new “Great Books” book group I’ve got together (we’re steadily reading chronologically through the Classics!) read the ancient Greek trilogy The Oresteia last week. The plot: Orestes avenges the murder of his father […]

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For our griefs, failures, tears, Christ’s desire is “Let nothing, nothing be wasted”

Anita Mathias — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:45:37 +0000

So, yesterday, my labradoodle, Merry, who is three quarters poodle, a hunting breed, came home from her walk with Roy, tail wagging, and with a present for me… a beautiful, quite adorable rabbit–perfectly dead. I screamed! I love rabbits, and we’ve had several as pets over the years. In fact, this was probably a descendant […]

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