if the funeral helped you and your loved ones with your grieving process, and if there was any part of the homily that you found particularly appropriate and touching. It will mean a lot to your priest if he feels he has been successful in helping the bereaved deal with their loss...
Finally, you have enough information about every character type. Still, identifying the type is just the first stage in character analysis essay writing. Let’s move on to the next stages and explore more recommendations onhow to write an essaythat your teacher and peers will remember for a l...
Today, May 2, I’m taking a break from reflections on the daily Psalms to write about humility. I can say with certainty that it is a subject in which I lack expertise. I know this because of how often I need lessons in it. If that isn’t evidence enough, I can consider my own...
What we need, what we really desire, is God himself: and thus in Jesus God has given us, as Paul writes, “the fullness of deity” (Col. 2:9), and it is through him that we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Having received this gift, and being in the process of receiving ...
Just as it’s more difficult to write a winning query letter if you’ve never seen a well-crafted one before than if you have, it’s pretty hard to construct a pitch in a vacuum. Since good elevator speeches vary as much as good books do, it’s a trifle hard to show what makes ...
Yeah. I think there’s something to that. But again, we are reading that with 21st century eyes or ears, with a very fresh recollection of the Holocaust. We’re reading it as non-Jews. The same way that an American can write a song about an American intervention abroad, and no one’...
One spiritual man, a batiushka close to us in time, told his spiritual daughter: “Sometimes they could write an icon of you, and sometimes a lurid novel.” We all have this kind of behavior. Forgive us, O Lord! We have no constancy. We have various impulses, sometimes more frequent,...
Lafferty, an independent scholar who writes about conspiracy theories for Where Peter Is, a moderate Catholic site founded to rebut right-wing attacks on Francis. A sort of “Catholic LARPing,” Georgetown theologian Adam Rasmussen noted on a Where Peter Is podcast, where alt-rightists organized...
“Haack Homily” (I’m really into alliteration) where I would write about a topic that was on my mind. Sometimes I shared my thoughts on events within the company such as the latest reorg. Or I might write about the importance of code reviews and how to do them in an inclusive and ...
I love my perennials, herbs, and flowers during the warm growing season. The dread of the winter months in Missouri has lessened as I have learned to love staying indoors, too. Time slows down, and I slow down to read and write. This week included a few afternoons to do just that. ...