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Spe Salvi 2.2
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awelborn
No, 2.2 was not required. Off to graphics. We’ll just count this post as version 2.2. When I clicked on the text of Spe Salvi Friday morning at 7am and glanced over it with echoes of Max and Ruby and early-morning complaints echoing in my ears and the pressure of a deadline looming with no babysitter…
Chromatius
By
awelborn
Pope Benedict continues to school us in the Early Church Fathers, turning to St. Chromatius in today’s GA. From Teresa Benedetta at PRF. (As he always does, Benedict begins with concise and skillful scene-setting for the ministry of Chromatius: Arianism, threats of invation and so on. And then he turns to his life and work:)…
John Gardner Madness
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awelborn
I think I’m about to go on a John Gardner kick. Never even read Grendel before (David did, in high school, and made a video based on it for a project…that’s as close as I got). But I picked up the new edition of Nickel Mountain on the “new arrivals” book at the library, read…
Yes, that is Francis Xavier
By
awelborn
..not St. Christopher over there on the right. Click on the “Image Source” link, and it will take you to an article on Francis Xavier in art, and an account of the painting from which that image is taken. Francis Xavier had a dream of carrying an Indian on his back, and this scene dramatizes…
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