Catholicism
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Second Week of Advent
I was sitting in my weekly meeting this morning, listening to everyone talk about the days they’ll be out of the office around Christmas. I frowned, turned to the person beside me, and whispered, “Is next week the week before Christmas?” So it is. The first week of Advent was a whirlwind of busy: There Continue reading
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My Confirmation Namesake
I’d been searching for a book on St. Edith Stein for some months. I’d claimed her name as my own in Confirmation, but knew merely the basics of her story—she was a feminist during WWII, a Jewish convert who perished in Auschwitz. With “basics” like that, I was eager to know more. On the first 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