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Psychosis – Not an Issue in Pastoral Care
Leave a commentApril 5, 2018 by lucieromarin
At the zenith of my director’s exorcistic activity, I started hearing voices presenting outside my head. I heard those voices …
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Why I Like Monks
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2018 by lucieromarin
Yesterday, on the Feast of St Benedict, the slackest Benedictine in the world received the latest copy of In Coenaculo …
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The Really Odd Thing is…
Leave a commentMarch 20, 2018 by lucieromarin
…that everyone knows that a prisoner is imprisoned. He can’t just go wandering about from parish to parish to find …
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St Patrick – Not a Tipsy Leprechaun
Leave a commentMarch 16, 2018 by lucieromarin
The Feast of St Patrick is not for binge-drinking and dancing jigs in silly hats. That’s because it’s not about …
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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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Forgiveness as the Sister of Justice
Leave a commentMarch 11, 2018 by lucieromarin
While looking into the possibility of legal action against my former director, I discovered that his file about me had …
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Lessons Learned Along the Way
Leave a commentMarch 6, 2018 by lucieromarin
Being on the right side of a reward-and-punishment system is not the same as being loved. Being found useful is …
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Maronite Fast. Maronite Slow.
Leave a commentMarch 2, 2018 by lucieromarin
Or: How to Confuse Your Friday – Bi-ritual Lent cont’d. Forget to check your Maronite liturgical calendar (or, possibly, forget …
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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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Carnivore Eats Plants: A Tale with Recipes
Leave a commentFebruary 18, 2018 by lucieromarin
This is the story of what happens when a bone-lazy Australian-Hungarian descendant of Magyar aristocracy attempts the Maronite observance of …
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