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...
Normally, you pick two or even three minor characters to write a character analysis essay as such heroes are not portrayed in detail.Good examples of minor characters that you can easily identify are sidekicks of antagonists: hyenas in “The Lion King,” Harley Quinn in comics about Batman ...
That’s always the scriptural context for the gibor,‘might.’ It makes sense to look for a Messiah who was not only physically strong, but who also had strength of character–you know, things like clarity of purpose; unshakable resolve; someone with the strategic mind of a general to out...
Each weekly started off with a “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 t...
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...
As a friend asked him to write a treatise on prayer, Evagrius decided to divide it into 153 chapters, which directly references the Gospel of Saint John (John 21: 1–14). Follow-ing Jesus’s death, the apostles go fishing, without catching anything. Then, a man appears before the boat...
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,...
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 ...
says david w. 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-...
Write down exactly what you’d like your new behavior to be. Be specific and make it quantifiable. Example: I will make 10 cold calls every workday prior to 10am. 2. Practice it … perfectly. The homily “practice makes perfect” is itself imperfect. In fact, “perfect practice makes ...