December 22nd, 2007
As we all wind up for several days of joyous celebrations with family and friends, here’s a bit of levity to accompany your last-minute orgy of gift-shopping and present wrapping, courtesy of our favorite Catholic jazz singer, Harry Connick, Jr.–seriously, his Christmas album (not the one featured in the skit!) is a classic–and the Rev. [...]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Joan of Arc: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Mary Gordon
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Strive to live content in the midst of those things that cause your discontent. Free your mind from all that troubles you, God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this [choice] without, so to speak, grieving the heart of God, because he sees that you do not honor him sufficiently with holy trust. Trust in him, I beg you, and you will have the fulfillment of what your heart desires.
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