Comments for While They Were Sleeping

Comment on How peculiar… by Chris S

Chris S — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:21:12 +0000

Amen!

Comment on It’s a what? by V

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:26:59 +0000

That sounds like something Craig would say.

Comment on It’s a what? by Fr. R. B.

Fr. R. B. — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:16:23 +0000

“Out of whack” was an expression my mother used which meant “broken” or unusable.

Comment on How peculiar… by Fr. R. B.

Fr. R. B. — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:24:15 +0000

You’re on the right track. I think the “dying on TV” may have begun during the Vietnam War era, but I can remember Movietone News on the Korean conflict that was bad. I dislike TV news on any account. I think you ask the right questions.
The word “peculiarly” is peculiarly difficult to pronounce. I suspect the other translations (I don’t have them with me) use a better word.

Comment on Captain’s Prayer by Fr. R. B.

Fr. R. B. — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:24:06 +0000

Of course, I don’t mind! Thank you for recalling the memory of the Captain. I do remember him well! Consider the positive impact you have having with this blog, at least on this Dominican!

Comment on Merton and Day by christina

christina — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:43:01 +0000

I have The Life you Save, but it’s been hovering on the reading list for years now. Maybe it needs to be moved to the front of the line…

Comment on Captain’s Prayer by V

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:14:46 +0000

I often hear this muttered around me when I go to mass in Spainsh. Its beautiful and it too has become my own.

Comment on A Prayer to Etienne Gilson by Mary Krivanek

Mary Krivanek — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:36:40 +0000

To answer the quote -not true. You are ‘doing’ what God created you to be – a writer. You are ‘being’ something when you are writing. God gives each of us a gift that others don’t have. Use your gift wisely.

Comment on Merton and Day by Violet Schorsch

Violet Schorsch — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:04:44 +0000

I think you are right on! Merton and Day were the first two spiritual writers I read when I was converting and I have continued to appreciate the ways they complement each other. Have you read The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie? This is a kind of joint biography of Merton, Day, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy and I really liked it.

Comment on A Charmed Life? by V

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:50:10 +0000

Christina,
Surely you haven’t escaped hardships. You have had an incredibly difficult year. Your father had cancer, chemo and passed away. You stopped working and are struggling with maintaining life around less money. Life is hard.

When I look at you, I think why not me? Then I realize that in the past 2 years, both Tom and Clark were hospitalized. Tom had a reinfection of the same thing that put him in the hosptial in the first place. We were terrified and had to rely on our community.

I clicked through the miscarriage links and found the portrait of the family who lost their baby, with their precious baby in their hands. I was imagining the worst, but the look on their beautiful faces is one of grace, blessing and peace.

God gives us what we can handle, God gives us what we need to grow and deepen our faith. He doesn’t give us too much, just enough, to push us forward. Forward into the body. You are not any less because you are a nose and not an ear. You get runny, but not achy. I get achy and ringy, but not runny. =)