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Reflecting Light

Marissa Papula

Irreverent, self-indulgent reflections on finding God in all things

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Stretch out my life / and pick the seams out

My son has started pretending this week.

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What’s mine to mine?

The origin of my last name has stirred curiosity in grocery store checkout lines, cocktail-party introductions, even among people I’ve known well for years. Greek? they ask. Italian? Hawaiian? Perhaps it’s the way I have to pronounce it twi...

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Mercy doesn't look away.

Last year, I offered the Catholic Women Preach homily for the Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday. I offer it here anew, returning again to the nudges that art and poetry offer the boundaries of my imagination, and to the brutal re...

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Good Friday

Calvary by Marie Howe

Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings,
someone shaking out a rug from an open window
might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away
and thought little or nothing of it.

Photo by Brenna O...

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Agere Contra, California

The Ignatian concept of agere contra isn’t one that laid its hooks into me until I encountered it in Colleen Dulle’s memoir, Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter. It hasn’t let me go since then: it percolates...

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