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“Rosaries at the Grotto” A Chapter from my newly-published memoir, “Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India.”

Anita Mathias — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:04:39 +0000

Rosaries at the Grotto During May, “The Month of our Lady,” Father Jesus Calvo, the Spanish parish priest, corralled the entire Catholic community of Jamshedpur at the grotto of St. Mary’s Church: a cave constructed of rocks and mortar, overplanted with rambling roses, built because the Virgin appeared to Bernadette at a grotto in Lourdes. […]

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Thoughts on Writing my Just-published Memoir, & the Prologue to “Rosaries, Reading, Secrets”

Anita Mathias — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:30:44 +0000

Writing a memoir awakens fierce memories of the past. For the past is not dead; it’s not even past, as William Faulkner observed. So what does one do with this undead past? Forgive. Forgive, huh? Forgive. Let it go. Again and again. For, after all, this world is one of insistent goodness, insistent abundance. Flowers […]

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Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India. My new memoir

Anita Mathias — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:10:27 +0000

Friends, I have written a new memoir. I would be so grateful for your support. It is available wherever Amazon sells books, Amazon.com, of course, as well as Amazon.co.uk. Here are some reviews from distinguished writers A beautifully written account of a childhood. The textures, colours and, above all, the tastes of a particular […]

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