Roadkill Rhapsody

A Catechumen’s Test – the Answers

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March 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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Category: Philosophy, Slightly Pious | Tags: Catechumen's Test, Godmother, Philosophy, Theology

Notes Trivial and Triumphant

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March 21, 2014 by lucieromarin

It’s difficult to know how much personal detail to share on a blog. Too much is boring to read and …
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Category: Books, Career and Finance, Children

“We Have to Remain Faithful”

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March 15, 2014 by lucieromarin

You’ll hear this from the pulpit, sometimes: “When scandal occurs or others fall, we have to remain faithful,” or, “Even …
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Category: Healing, Priests, Roadkill | Tags: Getting Over Him, Grief, healing, Priests

The Fascinating Mentat

After the Occupation

Now I’m Just Somebody that He Used to Know

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March 2, 2014 by lucieromarin

This weekend, while trudging through the rain with a bag of groceries on my back, I suddenly remembered lines from …
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Category: Friendship, Healing | Tags: Friendship, Getting Over Him, Grief, healing

Children Make You Tired

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February 25, 2014 by lucieromarin

New mothers tend to say things to me along the lines of, “Motherhood’s hit me like a tonne of bricks,” …
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Category: Children | Tags: Children

A Catechumen’s Test – Have I Left Anything Out?

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February 19, 2014 by lucieromarin

So, a friend of mine is to be baptised in a couple of weeks, and I’m godmother! Naturally, I have …
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Category: Friendship, Philosophy | Tags: Baptism, Catechumen's Test, Philosophy

Septuagesima…

In Praise of Bland Clergymen

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February 14, 2014 by lucieromarin

You know the sort: he rarely smiles; his sermons, though largely inoffensive, are uninspiring recitals of points of catechism we …
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Category: Celebrity, Priests | Tags: Celebrity, Priests, Sermons