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Eucharistic Table Manners: Learning How to Eat

Eating with small children is rarely a dull affair. I remember my son Benjamin years ago standing up in his high chair, lifting his bowl of oatmeal above his head, only to throw it down with the exclamation, "Down went Goliath!" I have little idea about what was going on in his brain. What I do know is that I, as his father, had some teaching to do. Though I was proud of the fact that he had picked up…
Norman Wirzba
February 1, 2011
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To Make and Be at Home

Do you know where you are going to be buried or who will be buried alongside you? Great numbers of people no longer know how to answer this question. This is striking because for millennia the place and community of one's burial could simply be taken for granted. One had a sense for home, knew where one belonged, even if one was not necessarily at peace with one's home or community. Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh have written an…
Norman Wirzba
January 1, 2010