Category Archives: Slightly Pious
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Postscript about Heaven
Leave a commentMarch 13, 2018 by lucieromarin
An impious opinionatrix remarked on the words in the previous post, “…but I do want to see him in Heaven.” …
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Thread as a Primitive Magic
2February 25, 2018 by lucieromarin
Once, after a session of spiritual direction, I took my crochet hook and my yarn from my bag. “Do you …
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Finding it Hard to Love Her
Leave a commentAugust 29, 2014 by lucieromarin
In my (vast) experience, when conservative Catholics admit to difficulties with Marian devotion, the difficulties aren’t intellectual, but emotional. That …
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Saturday: Saints, Styling, Shopping
Leave a commentJuly 26, 2014 by lucieromarin
Today being the Feast of St Ann, we all made the obvious meditation (or listened to it in a sermon). …
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In Praise of the Cake-Lady
Leave a commentJune 2, 2014 by lucieromarin
The brutal reality that all preachers, servers and choristers must keep before them is this: good preaching, reverent serving, and …
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Virgins – Not Made of Pink Sugar
Leave a commentMay 12, 2014 by lucieromarin
To understand anything, the first thing you have to realise is that the devil cannot create anything. All he can …
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An Episode in the Rain (and What it Taught Me About Hell)
4April 6, 2014 by lucieromarin
It’s a rainy, rainy Sunday here, and watching it beat against the window reminded me of a funny experience a …
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A Catechumen’s Test – the Answers
2March 23, 2014 by lucieromarin
Well, my friend is now my brother in Christ, and has made his third Communion, which is a very happy-making …
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“I do not Promise You Happiness in this Life…”
2January 29, 2014 by lucieromarin
In an apparition to St Bernadette Soubirous, Our Lady said, “I do not promise you happiness in this life, but …
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The Deluge and Its Consequences
3November 23, 2013 by lucieromarin
It’s raining. It has been raining for days, and I’ve been caught in more than one downpour. (I was drenched …
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Roadkill Rhapsody 