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2021-03-30T20:12:33-04:00

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Passion Sunday and the Mystery of the Great God

Last updated on: March 30, 2021 at 8:12 pm By Mary Pezzulo

One liturgical year ago yesterday, I stood in a parking lot in my sweatpants receiving absolution, and that was my last sacrament for months and months. We didn’t dare go to Mass again as a family until February. It’s been a difficult year. Most years are difficult, to be honest, but this one so much more so. Watching the absolute selfishness of so many for such a long time is exhausting. So many times in the past year, I’ve looked... Read more

Interpretation of Scripture

2021-03-26T10:13:54-04:00

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The Name I Call Myself

Last updated on: March 26, 2021 at 10:13 am By Mary Pezzulo

The first week as a car owner didn’t start out very well. I was so excited over the car. I named it “The Neighborhood Trolley” since I got it on the birthday of my beloved Fred Rogers. I drove us to the evening Mass, the first time we’ve gotten to Mass on our own power without a long hike since we’ve lived here. I’ve wanted to drive to Mass more than almost anything else. I’ve daydreamed about going to... Read more

The Neighborhood Trolley

2021-03-25T12:47:42-04:00

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On Birds and Bees, Gila Monsters and Chastity

Last updated on: March 25, 2021 at 12:47 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I gave Rosie the talk about the birds and the bees. This happened a bit sooner than I expected. Rosie is a smart girl who loves science and, specifically, biology. She wants to be a park ranger when she grows up. She is constantly watching nature documentaries. One evening, after a documentary on gila monsters laying eggs in the desert, she held up two rubber geckos and rubbed their tummies together where the cloacas would be. “They’re having sex!” she... Read more

2021-03-20T23:26:32-04:00

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The Appalachian Purgatorio

Last updated on: March 20, 2021 at 11:26 pm By Mary Pezzulo

Friday was Saint Joseph’s Day, so I prayed to him as I walked downtown to the bank. I took out a cashier’s check for the first time in my life. I put the check in my purse loose, because I’ve never thought to buy a wallet. I walked to the church to say “thank you” and to pray that nothing would go wrong the next day. They were tuning the organ up in the loft, as I sat in the... Read more

2021-03-17T21:30:40-04:00

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Yes, Robert Aaron Long’s Rampage Was Racially Motivated

Last updated on: March 17, 2021 at 9:30 pm By Mary Pezzulo

There has been another horrendous mass shooting. This one happened last night, in and around Atlanta. A young white man by the name of Robert Aaron Long reportedly gunned down eight people, all but one of them women, at least six of them Asian, at two spas in the Atlanta area before he was apprehended by the police. Sheriff Frank Reynolds of Cherokee County explained that Long has a “sex addiction” and that he had frequented these spas for sexual... Read more

2021-03-17T16:52:48-04:00

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Maybe I’ll Drive to Church

Last updated on: March 17, 2021 at 4:52 pm By Mary Pezzulo

We are buying a car on Saturday. Well, maybe not. There are a million and one things that could go wrong. We have our sights on an inexpensive car with nothing obviously wrong with it. We have a ride to the dealership with an extra grown-up in the car who will ride back with me in my ‘new’ car, since it’ll be my first drive as a licensed driver. We have a loan from friends, who offered to lend... Read more

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Our Lady of Consolation

2021-03-16T17:05:36-04:00

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To Those Who Gloat When LGBTQ People Leave the Church

Last updated on: March 16, 2021 at 5:05 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I have a message for the Catholics around me who responded to the Vatican statement on not blessing same sex unions yesterday, and to other such statements, by gloating. And to the people who gloat whenever the Vatican releases such a statement. Not to the people who just fully realize this was re-stating Church teaching and then go about their business, but to the people who were excited that it hurt the feelings of LGBTQ Catholics whether they’re living... Read more

2021-03-11T01:52:54-04:00

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Here Is A Truth You Can Speak In Love

Last updated on: March 11, 2021 at 1:52 am By Mary Pezzulo

Tonight I am so sad. A friend, a Catholic who is gay, tweeted about a mutual friend of ours who has decided to leave the Catholic Church because they were so tired of the homophobic harassment. This was a person who was living chastely according to the rules of the Church, but it wasn’t enough for their detractors, and now they’ve left. My heart was broken by that tweet. And it was further broken by the dirty, nasty, ugly,... Read more

2021-03-09T16:08:36-04:00

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Chronic Illness, Phone Tag, and a Depressing Start to the Week

Last updated on: March 9, 2021 at 4:08 pm By Mary Pezzulo

The doctor’s office called this morning, when I was half asleep and depressed. I had been a little depressed since Saturday when I took my walk, and it hadn’t gone away. I feel like we should be able to speak publicly about such things, because if we don’t, then people suffering them might think they were alone. I was depressed. Not the kind of depressed where you cry violently until your head hurts, but the kind of depressed where you... Read more

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2021-03-06T19:02:14-04:00

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The First Crocus

Last updated on: March 6, 2021 at 7:02 pm By Mary Pezzulo

There is nothing colder than a forty degree day, when it was in the sixties earlier in the week. Something about that contrast is a sharper, more painful cold than the cold of a day with a much lower temperature earlier in the year. In February, I was excited for the weather to get above freezing. Now, at the end of the first week of March, it feels cruel. Every patch of snow has finally melted away. The earth is... Read more

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