Lent
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On Honesty, and Forgiveness
It’s often the things that you anticipate being the most difficult that end up not being difficult at all. For weeks, perhaps months, I’d been anxious over confession. Where do I start? How specific do I have to get? What if I forget something? I’d scheduled a time between Masses, outside the normal allotted half-hour Continue reading
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Praying to All Who Will Listen
Sunday evening, my sponsor sidled up to me in a way I was accustomed to interpreting as mischievous. Instead, he said, “I have something for you,” and requested I close my eyes as he placed something in my hands. I was the proud owner of my first rosary. I didn’t look up the prayers right Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6