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Tag Archives: Last Supper

Images of Holy Thursday

April 25, 2019church, Holy Week, iconsEucharist, foot-washing, Gethsemane, Holy Thursday, Judas, Last Supper, Mystical Supper, St. PeterGretchenJoanna

Holy Thursday

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gretchenOrthodox Christian, widowed in 2015; mother of five and grandmother of seventeen, living in Northern California.
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Orthodoxy and Me

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

-Mark Twain

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  • A happy hodgepodge.
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Recent Reads:

My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle by Marcel Pagnol

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Phineas L. MacGuire Gets Cooking by Frances O’Roark Dowell

A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton

My Antonia by Willa Cather

White Road by Olga Ilyin

Dubliners by James Joyce

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington

Bringing up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman

Life in the Garden
by Penelope Lively

The Panama Canal by Charles River Editors

From and Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan

 

From the archives: Three Truthful Fictions

Three Truthful Fictions

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About Those Tags and Categories

George Bernard Shaw said, "Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life."

I apologize for the way all these categories (and now that I'm on WordPress we have tags as well) are so mixed up and crude. There's always the Search box if you need it.

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If you want to read the posts about my seven weeks in India in chronological order, start with this post. Otherwise, you can click on the tag “India” and all the posts with that tag will display, most recent first.

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