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A Deacon’s Diary: What Does it Actually Mean to be Free?

A Deacon’s Diary: What Does it Actually Mean to be Free?

by Steve Molvarec, SJ | Feb 3, 2022 | A Deacon's Diary, Series    ~ Approx. 5 mins

This is the seventh installment of A Deacon’s Diary. In the sixth installment, Steve pondered dark things in the darkness of December. I. On a recent Sunday, ordinariness had recommenced at Boston University, despite (not unfounded) fears of COVID outbreaks. Vestments...
A Deacon’s Diary: The Nostalgia of Midwinter Darkness

A Deacon’s Diary: The Nostalgia of Midwinter Darkness

by Steve Molvarec, SJ | Jan 13, 2022 | A Deacon's Diary, Christmas, Series    ~ Approx. 6 mins

This is the sixth installment of A Deacon’s Diary. In the fifth installment, strange dreams kept waking Steve up. I. She said to me: You’re the one who’ll come and put the coins on the eyes of the dead. It was almost the darkest day of the year.  I was in the middle...

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Families are our first school of love. Ty Wahlbrink, SJ reflects that God could have chosen any way to enter the world—but God chose to have a family. Based on the readings for the Feast of the Holy Family.

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