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Archive for March, 2011

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Long Island Sights

Bigelow’s Chowder   Maybe Thomas Merton’s house? Ann wasn’t quite sure. It’s one possibility at least. Jones Beach Levy Park and Preserve St. Agnes Cathedral

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Hunger Memorial

  New York.

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Found Object

  Dug up from the bottom of a desktop pencil holder. Other than that, I have no idea.

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A Day in Hanceville

For the first time in 28 years of parenting, I did this amazing new thing today: I went on a field trip. ! (Yes, I’m That Mom) It was up the road to Hanceville, the site of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament. I was up there a couple of weeks ago with Ann [...]

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Why fast?

By immersing ourselves into the death and resurrection of Christ through the Sacrament of Baptism, we are moved to free our hearts every day from the burden of material things, from a self-centered relationship with the “world” that impoverishes us and prevents us from being available and open to God and our neighbor. Pope Benedict [...]

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I think it’s pretty exciting news that the venerable IMAGE imprint is returning.   What’s going on at Doubleday: The Crown Publishing Group has reorganized its religious publishing program, moving all of its Catholic books under the Image Books imprint and in the process doing away with the Doubleday Religion imprint. Under the reorganization, announced by [...]

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The Power of the Cross was originally published back in 2004.  Michael was working on a revised edition when he died – one which would be more explicitly designed as a Lenten devotional.  Because of that loose end, OSV went ahead and put the book out of print a couple of months after he died. [...]

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As many of you know, Pope Benedict’s second book on Jesus of Nazareth is due to be published next week. Today, those with advance copies are being allowed to discuss three sections from the embargoed manuscript. (I’m grateful to have the (digital) book but it’s not easy reading with ‘EMBARGOED”  emblazoned across each page!) Chapter [...]

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Still here…

…just finished up a project. I hope I finished it, that is. You never know what The Man will say, though, so we’ll see. Next up: taxes, then a couple of e-books to try to publish before Lent begins. Tonight I’m relaxing by bouncing between reading Andy Ferguson, Rodney Crowell and Pope Benedict… So..if you [...]

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