Prayer is ruining me for blogging…

November 12, 2009 By

Sourcebook I love my oratory. It’s so nice, so restful, so mine. Going there to pray every day (“going there;” it’s on the other side of my desk) just…shapes the whole day. But it’s really playing hell with my blogging and the direction of the blog. I mean, here’s my morning: I shower, get dressed, [...]

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Would he piss on an image of Obama?

October 28, 2009 By

Larry David found comedy fodder in piety on the latest episode of his series, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ On the show’s most recent installment, which aired Sunday, David urinates on a painting of Jesus Christ, causing a woman to believe the painting depicts Jesus crying. … During Sunday’s episode, David, who created, wrote and produced “Seinfeld,” [...]

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Crucifix on my Oratory

September 29, 2009 By

One of these days, I will learn how to take a picture out of a digital camera (or my phone) and post a picture of my Oratory for you. Suffice to say it is makeshift. I have a cushion for sitting or kneeling (it’s big). I’ve pushed a glass-topped credenza to the wall, leaned four [...]

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July 22 St. Mary Magdalene

July 22, 2009 By

St. Mary Magdalene, Pray for Us At our most recent Big Family Party I got into a conversation with a dear friend of the family – a lady in her 70′s who is very modern-thinking, and on top of the conventional wisdom. Somehow the conversation got into television programming, and a general consensus was reached: [...]

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Reclaiming a Holy Thing from the Dogs

June 27, 2009 By

So, a during the Carrie Prejean/Prop 8 kerfluffle, I wrote this: “…if you’re going to take off your top for a camera, be prepared (sooner or later) to have to answer for it, both in this world, and the next…You’ll have to answer for it because when you profess yourself a Christian, you choose exile, [...]

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