We didn’t leave and hide like the male disciples did after Jesus was crucified; we stayed near like the women at the cross, bearing witness to the abuse, the cover-ups, the lies, the deception, the limited love. Some of us grieved out loud and shook our fists at the pews and doors...
The parish included several mission churches, among them Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe at the Plaza. One of the first things the Padre did as priest-in-charge was to establish a school for girls as well as for boys at his home near the church. Education was one of his major passions. ...
On the first day of college our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up
During the next year and one-month the two grew to know each other ___41___the mail. A Romance was budding. John requested a(an) ___42___, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like. Later they ___43___their first meeting—...
Tried to see Palace but found everything closed on account of a XXX day. The churches full of people and services going on. I stayed at the hotel in the afternoon and wrote to E.L.R. Bought some head handkerchiefs, such as the women here wear, at the English store. ...
In England, the two kinds of churches I do still see filling appear rather different. In a local baptist church the pews are crammed with young families having powerful, intimate encounters with their faith. Something immediate is being accommodated. I remember seeing a guy fresh from a buildin...
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CHURCHESPORTUGALCOUNTRYThis paper compares the interior acoustics of Catholic churches of Portugal, and Peru, built in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In situ measured data of Reverberation Time and other parameters are presented and compared controlling for country.Carlos Jiménez Dianderas...
“than I ran into Zora Neale Hurston, walking intently down the main street. I didn’t know she was in the South [actually, he did, having received a letter from her in March, but he had no idea she was in Alabama], and she didn’t know I was either, so we were very glad to...
Fortunately, Trudeau even- tually found a fiddle teacher in Laurel Martin, who helped her to develop her childhood inter- est for Irish traditional music into a full-fledged passion. But just when Trudeau thought things with Martin couldn't get any better, they did. Last year, Trudeau and ...