saints
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St. Martha, Dragon Tamer
Recently, I commented on how we don’t know what happened with Martha after Jesus came to visit. He’d gently reprimanded her, so we’re left with the conclusion “be a Mary rather than a Martha.” No bustling around. Take time to sit at Jesus’s feet. I never thought of her much beyond that. But with her… Continue reading
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St. Hildegard
The local classical station has been showcasing female composers, a show I’ve caught several times the past week in late-night drives home. After one particularly moving piece of music, the host returned to say, “That music is nine hundred years old!” Which brought me to learn of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine nun that… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6