Catholicism
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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
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The Life of a Saint
As an adult convert, it’s uncommon to take on a confirmation name. (The rule is something like, unless your given name is very clearly anti-Christian. I think I’ll be okay.) Not to say I haven’t thought about it. Confirmation is a rebirth of sorts, the becoming of a new person. In a sense. As a… 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