January 2010
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(A guest post from Janet Cupo) I know that some of you are thinking about sending some sort of aid to Haiti, and so I wanted to tell you about the Louverture Cleary School. This Catholic school has been serving the poorest of the poor in Haiti for 20 years. Their goal is to…
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Although I live in town, there is a good bit of swampy woodland, which I hope will be forever undevelopable, around my house. Walking at night on our street, which is bordered on the other side by woods and a little creek, I’m sometimes startled by a sort of bark-scream from the dark woods. And…
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This…is the mystery of baptism: God desired to save us by going to the bottom of this abyss himself so that every person, even those who have fallen so low that they can no longer perceive heaven, may find God’s hand to cling to and rise from the darkness to see once again the light…
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Some Avatar fans are reportedly sinking into depression because the movie has given them a vision of heaven that they don’t want to let go of but have no hope of attaining, being captives of a materialistic philosophy probably not even consciously held. May they keep the longing and gain the hope. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Sunday Night Journal — January 10, 2010 Every time I begin to write about the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s, I immediately come up against the question of what to call it. “The ‘60s” is hardly adequate—a great many things happened in the 1960s, and I am not talking about, for instance, the civil…
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Solaris was first a 1961 novel by Stanislaw Lem (which I have not read), then a 1972 film by Andrei Tarkovsky, and most recently a 2002 film by Stephen Soderbergh. I saw the 2002 film several years ago, maybe as many as five or six years. I knew nothing about it and just picked it…
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I had thought I might discuss this a bit, but since I’m quite busy and not in a position to think about Charles Williams at the moment, I’ll just link: Descent Into Hell, the Internet, and the prison of the self. I’ve been reading that blog, What’s Wrong With the World, when I can for…
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When you see, over the next few days, references like this to “areas in the South unaccustomed to prolonged cold spells,” think of places like Fairhope, Alabama. It rarely freezes here, and when it does it’s usually a brief dip into the high 20s (Fahrenheit, -2 or -3 Celsius) for a few hours late at…
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I’m pretty sure this is the first and probably the last recipe that has appeared or will appear here. I meant to mention it several days ago and kept forgetting. But Sunday is, officially, Epiphany, and so still a part of the holiday season. I'm saying "holiday" rather than "Christmas" because it’s just as appropriate…
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In every issue of Magnificat there are always a few of the daily meditations that I want to remember, so I tear out the pages and put them in a file. I was several issues behind on this task and found these quotations while catching up on it a few days ago. The hopelessness all…
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