Monthly Archives: March 2013
Good Friday 2013
Michael and I went to Washington Heights’ Good Friday service at 6 p.m. There was a movie that began with the crucifixion, but then told God’s story and plan from creation, the fall, the flood, Abraham taking Isaac to sacrifice, Moses … Continue reading
Death Comes For The Archbishop, Willa Cather
Introduction, xiii Thomas Mann in Joseph and His Brethren Mann described his ancient Hebrews as ‘much like ourselves, aside from a measure of dreamy indefiniteness in their habits of thought’. Miss Cather commends this ‘indefiniteness’ as one of ‘the most … Continue reading
p.16 When he opened his eyes again, his glance immediately fell upon one juniper which differed in shape from the others. It was not a thick growing cone, but a naked, twisted trunk, perhaps ten feet high, and at the … Continue reading
Death Comes For The Archbishop, Willa Cather
p. 40 Father Vaillant began pacing restlessly up and down as he spoke, and the Bishop watched him, musing. It was just this in his friend that was dear to him. ‘Where there is great love there are always miracles,’ … Continue reading
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
p. 73 ‘The ev-en-ing-star,’ he [Jacinto] said in English, slowly and somewhat sententiously, then relapsed into Spanish. ‘You see the little star beside, Padre? Indians call him the guide.’ The two companions sat, each thinking his own thoughts as night … Continue reading
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
p. 75 3 THE ROCK After early Mass the next morning Father Latour and his guide rode off across the low plain that lies between Laguna and Acoma. In all his travels the Bishop had seen no country like this. … Continue reading
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
p. 121 The Bishop could imagine what it meant for a young man who had not learned to read until long after adolescence to undergo a severe academic training. He found [Antonio Jose] Martinez deeply versed, not only in … Continue reading
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
p. 134 The ceremony calmed the tormented man, and he lay quiet with his hands folded on his breast. The women returned and sat murmuring prayers as before. The rain drove against the window panes, the wind made a hollow … Continue reading
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
p. 161 A line of young poplars linked the Episcopal courtyard with the school. On the south, against the earth wall, was the one row of trees they had found growing there when they first came —old, old tamarisks with … Continue reading
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
p. 164 Father Vaillant moved uneasily under his blankets. ‘To hunt for lost Catholics, Jean! Utterly lost Catholics, down in your new territory, towards Tucson. There are hundreds of poor families down there who have never seen a priest. I … Continue reading
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