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McCarthy, Abigail
The newst~apers have been full of reports of canonizations in prospect. Quite providential canonizations, one might even say strategic. There is the unquestionably heroic woman doctor, wife...
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...MICHAEL F. MCCAULEY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Abigail McCarthy ( C o n t . ) ple seem to be saying: 'No, you mustn't go here, you mustn't go there...
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...Anyhow, on this pilgrimage, I was determined to be first here and now, without waiting until I got to heaven _9 . . I remember visiting a house of Carmelite friars . . . I made my way boldly to the central cloisters...
...In 1976 approximately eighty million Americans voted for presidentD79.6 million for Carter, Ford, McCarthy and Maddox...
...To the Editors: I support strongly Abigail McCarthy's call for "universal simplified voter registration" ["The Apathetic Voter"DFeb...
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...But at the end of her brief days, on h e r way to find out what God thought, she let the words stand for us to make of them what we could...
...how lovingly I'd carry you in my hands when you came down from heaven at my call...
...Felix School without ever being told who St...
...June 19-24, Brown, Colhns, MacKenzie Mowry Pritchard...
...With one exception, the saints did not come close to us...
...I suppose he lets us share the neglect he himself chose for his lot on earth...
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...you'll be excommunicated.' There's no respect /or us poor wretched women anywhere...
...We had no idea what that meant, but found it comforting...
...Patrick on the o t h e r - - concessions to the backgrounds of the parishioners who first joined and then succeeded the French...
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...Joseph was there, of course, on his altar, and Our Blessed Lady on hers...
...Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower as she was always called then...
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...Yet in leafing through it recently I found a passage which bears new meditation now: "I still can't understand why it's so easy for a woman to get excommunicated in Italy...
...And at least once, when she.went to Italy before she entered Carmel, she acted on Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
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...It stood in the school hall as we went back and forth from one room to the other...
...However, her statistical comparison of nonvoters and voters is seriously inaccurate...
...Looking back in later years, ~hen those of us who had discovered saints as people were all strugg}ing with the phenomenon of the Little Flower stripped of sentimentality by later biographers...
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...One week she was t h e r e - - a happy, friendly eight-year-old--pink-e h e e k e d, blue-eyed, with her fair, straight, German-blond hair caught off her face with a barrette adorned with a blue ribbon bow...
...Her parents took the money in her small savings account and bought us a statue of Ste...
...The next week she was gone, and her desk was festooned with purple cr0.pe paper and ferns...
...But, where, I used to wonder, was the timely element...
...Felix parish, where I grew up, we had depended more upon the Poor Souls than the saints...
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...And yet you'll find the love of God much commoner among women than among men, and the women at the Crucifixion showed much more courage than the Apostles, exposing themselves to insult, and wiping our Lord's face...
...All the time, peo(Continued on page 191) Commonweal: 169 even crotchety, approach-edged with compassion and understanding---that makes Van Zeller's writing a welcome relief from the limp-wristed, inane spirituality of the not-too-distant past...
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...Felix was, except that he was the patron of the French priest who had founded the parish...
...I went twelve years to St...
...Plus because it was Sister Superior Pia's name's day, but only after covering the whole day's work in shortened periods...
...After all, we were well acquainted with some of the former, and the others were a faraway lot...
...She had come when one of our friends left us...
...Boniface was on one side of the high altar and Si...
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...She was canonized when I was in grade school and one of my classmates died that year---of what mysterious cause I do not know...
...when her spiritual achievement was laid bare in .all its fearsome stark simplicity...
...A saint for our times...
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...They stayed in our church history courses and in the long chant of the litany during Forty Hours Devotion...
...the priesthood included: "And at the same time I want to be a priest...
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...If the above seems a bit wry, it is because I have never quite gotten over the sense of betrayal I felt when it was first suggested to me--with irrefutable logic 'by a respected college professorJthat canonizations, although, of course, the work of the Holy Spirit, often had a fortuitous and political human element~an application to the times...
...Our pastor was extremely proud of the fact that our school was accredited, and did not approve of interruptions in the school y e a r - - s o we didn't hear anything about his patron either...
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...how lovingly I'd bestow you upon *men's souls[" She loved to take the lead in the convent celebration of Divine Office...
...Thus, we had a saint...
...Nor did we celebrate his feast day, if, indeed, he had one...
...then she felt that she came closest to the actions of a priest...
...She became a familiar of our days in her Carmelite habit, eyes upturned, holding the Crucifix and spilling roses, which we knew meant that she wanted to do us kindnesses from heaven...
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...By that time I ,had grown interested in the saints as human beings of great variety...
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...And Blessed Matt Talbot seems about to be elevated at long l a s t - - a little late, I think, for the blue-collar laity, but certainly in time for the mounting ranks of members of Alcoholics Anonymous...
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...in heaven, where the last will ,be first, we shall know more about what God thinks . . . . " "What God thinks"--she didn't think that was settled in Italy...
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...We depended on the Poor Souls to wake us up on time, to remind us of things, to help with exams...
...We knew they cared about us and were in need of the Our Fathers and Hail TIMELY SAINTS ABIGAIL MeCARTHY Marys we offered in return...
...And he seeks "financial help for the starving...
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...It was nice that the canonization of the first American-born saint, Mother Seton, came in time for the Bicentennial, and that that of one of our first American Bishops, Bishop Neumann was soon to follow her...
...In the church only the ,bare minimum of statues for that time were offered for our veneration...
...She did not think they had t h e wrong bodies for the calling...
...There is the unquestionably heroic woman doctor, wife and mother, who willingly accepted death rather than consent to an abortion to save her l i f e - - a patron for the pro-life movement...
...I do remember that for a time we went home early on th~ feast of St...
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...the work of the Holy Spirit in her canonization was surely evident...
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...I would think that she intended to say that there were nearly two nonvoters for every person that voted /or Jimmy Carter...
...We were told that she had been canonized because she had proved in her short life that anyone, anyone, could be a saint by following the "little way...
...John Fisher, men who defied the state in the n.arne of conscience, at a time in which Fascism and Nazism and Communism threatened the Church in Europe...
...I never heard either of them referred to in a homily----oh, perhaps, a reference or two from the traveling missionaries who came to the parish once a year...
...A patron for those taking further steps---preparing for what will come~ OOOOOOOOO CORRESPONDENCE (Continued ]rom page 163) from old centuries into the present, for joy in great writings...
...He introduced us to Commonweal: Periodicals in church vestibules had never been like this...
Vol. 104 • March 1977 • No. 6
