I was taken aback by the Christian Brother’s response: “You disappoint me, Kerrigan. I thought you were one of the more intelligent pupils and would have figured out that we don’t teach you Catholicism in RE – we do that in history, Irish, geography, English and all the other ...
Sisters of Carmel traditional religious goods and gift store, rosaries, chaplets, brown scapulars, crucifixes, badges, catholic books, medals, statues
That’s how I imagine the morning after speech of a Bethlehem shepherd. Intoxicated by wonder, struggling to make sense of it, and feeling both curious and anxious about what happens now, after this wondrous birth. What happens to me, to you, to the whole wide world?A change is gonna c...
“The sun is high, at the zenith. Clear soft sound of a temple bell far down in the valley. Voices of children near the cottages above me on the mountainside. The sun is warm. Everything falls into place. Nothing is to be decided … There is nothing to be judged.”[vi] Photographs...
So the next day, they went back to the store and bought even more outrageous outfits. These were so loud you could hear them before you even saw them! Once again, in their new attire, they settled down in their chairs to enjoy the sunshine. After a little while, the same gorgeous ...
“They came to get me, unwillingly of course. I thought I was heading back home – but they ended up just transferring me to a similar mosque near Hebron. “I was already 16 and had gained at least some self-confidence. One evening I decided to run away after gathering ‘intelligence’...
I was initially told not to run because (“It’s a thankless job”). It is not. Scores of parents stopped me in the grocery store (this was pre-pandemic) to thank me and to argue in a civil way on behalf of their children. I knew many at Cornell, but few off the east hill (...
In 1980, a typical grocery store carried about 15,000 SKUs (a stock keeping unit that refers to a specific product). Today, the average grocery offers 50,000 individual food items, Yiannas said. In the near future, the world’s food supply chain will be “omnichannel,” where ...
On the way home, we passed by a different store that had lots of warm fuzzy slippers, and I bought a pair, so now, at home, my feet are even warm. Heaven! I plan to write myself a note to remind me that next year we need to pack warm slippers and a hot water bottle, and ...
But where one man would have me grinde it, Twentie for one too sharp do finde it. Perhaps some such of old did passe, Who above all things lov’d this life: To whom thy sithe a hatchet was, Which now is but a pruning knife. ...