Bookish Catholics

Reading Woman by Poul Friis Nybo We have a happy new little thing around here. A book a month. Great women to discuss them with. Can it get any better?  A book club. A Catholic Book Club. Inspired by such as Betty Duffy, her reading group Reading for Believers and Leila at Like Mother Like Daughter. I think this satisfies a long held dream. To be a literature professor at a small Catholic...

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a Holy Thursday that feels like any other day.

I suffer from the torment of high expectations. I woke up this morning, Holy Thursday morning, knowing that it is my favorite feast. Knowing that it is filled with stunning memories of my conversion, of special friends, of wafts of overwhelming incense, of priests laying themselves on the carpet before the altar, of walking through the dark in procession singing ancient hymns, of hours kneeling on a linoleum floor praying late into the night in front of the Real Presence with tears running down...

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