Catholicism
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“What Are You Giving Up?”
I forget about “giving up” something for Lent every year. (“Every year,” she says, in the two years she’s been here.) Maybe because the date of Ash Wednesday changes, so it’s a last-minute surprise. More likely, giving something up seems the easy way out. I can swear off common vices like chocolate or coffee, and… Continue reading
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St. Joan of Arc
I was amazed when I first learned the famed Joan of Arc is a saint. And now, learning she’s also one of the patronesses of the Columbiettes, I dug in for more info. It’s the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, and Joan is peasant girl living in occupied France. At this time, she experiences… 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