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2017-07-19T13:45:38-05:00

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Things Keeping Us Alive in July: The Trying to Say God Conference

Last updated on: July 19, 2017 at 1:45 pm By Matt Lafleur

Every month here at Sick Pilgrim, we like to bring you a feature we call Things Keeping Us Alive. A diverse group of people share a couple of small, cheap to free joys in their lives at this moment. Though the Sick Pilgrim blog often treads in melancholy, it’s important not to be swallowed by despair – and that’s as much for ourselves as for our readers. We’re too Sick to be the preachy type. But as St. Teresa of... Read more

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2017-08-07T12:48:24-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Alive With Decay

Last updated on: August 7, 2017 at 12:48 pm By Guest Contributor

Seed work is work for the dark. It is growth to be entrusted to soil that I did not make; enriched by the work—the lives, the words, the acts, the deaths—of others who came before, broken down and blended into a rich dark compost; watered from clouds I cannot form; floating in Heavens I cannot reach. Read more

dark night of the soul

2017-07-13T18:46:30-05:00

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Taking Intersectionality to Church

Last updated on: July 13, 2017 at 6:46 pm By Guest Contributor

I just read an article in First Things, called “First Church of Intersectionality,” by Elizabeth Corey. Her article was timely, in that I’ve been, over the last several months, reflecting more and more on what it means to have a body. To be a body. To move through life in a female body. In a body with fair skin. In a body that’s both given life and been the scene of a crime. In delving into the riches of Catholic teachings on justice... Read more

2017-07-10T10:24:18-05:00

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I Love a Good Clean Murder

Last updated on: July 10, 2017 at 10:24 am By Guest Contributor

Best are those with minimal blood: perhaps poison, asphyxiation, or even strangulation. But even better is the off-camera death, where we don’t see the victim stalked by their killer. Oh, I like a murder that feels staged—and that’s also available on Netflix. My husband and I watch at least three murder mysteries a week, usually of the BBC variety: Midsomer Murders or Marple, Sherlock or Foyle’s War. In between, I devour mystery novels, reading through author’s life’s work until I... Read more

2017-07-10T09:57:17-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Missing Your Own Party

Last updated on: July 10, 2017 at 9:57 am By Matt Lafleur

Art by Brian C. Jocks “Come... Read more

2017-07-07T10:54:12-05:00

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The Bats of St. Alphonsus

Last updated on: July 7, 2017 at 10:54 am By Jonathan Ryan

As a writer and artist, people ask me why I’ve gotten back into parish work. It’s a fair question as many people see local parish work as a hinderance to creative expression. The local church often does strangle creativity in a variety of ways. Every time I look at a lily white Marian prayer card, for example, I feel brain cells dying like I drank a quart of alcohol. Yet parish life can also contain surprises and little mysteries to... Read more

2017-07-03T13:06:49-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Toxic Love

Last updated on: July 3, 2017 at 1:06 pm By Guest Contributor

Following Christ often appears insane. It seems to contradict all the things this world tells us is good. What's more, Christ tells us that we have to love him more than our most basic, fundamental social units. Read more

2017-06-27T11:28:17-05:00

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Trying to Say God: An Address to the Artists

Last updated on: June 27, 2017 at 11:28 am By Guest Contributor

A Catholic writer lives and works at this edge of meaning, between light and the dark. Read more

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Trying to Say God Conference

2017-06-25T00:32:31-05:00

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Dark Devotional: The Mystery of Persecution

Last updated on: June 25, 2017 at 12:32 am By Guest Contributor

In a world dominated by selfishness and the pursuit of their own interests, those who preach love, poverty and forgiveness will inevitably be persecuted. Read more

2017-06-20T19:54:02-05:00

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Things Keeping Us Alive, June ’17

Last updated on: June 20, 2017 at 7:54 pm By Matt Lafleur

When I was young, summertime meant joy. And it mostly still does – the long days, the eagerness to be outside, even the suffocating heat of South Louisiana recalls days of summer break for school, freedom unlike anything else in my school-aged mind. But getting older means that freedom isn’t as carefree as it once was. Maybe it’s empathy that lessens the unbridled happiness. I know people are struggling right now. So summer’s not as insular, not as huge a... Read more

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