When the Saints Come Marching In . . .

by Little Miss Attila on January 1, 2010

Lucy at Church Ladies is assigning new patron saints for 2010. CL also has fresh prayers for the new year, and some cool stuff on the Rosary and devotions; keep scrolling.

I’m sticking with St. Catherine of Siena, whom Lucy assigned me this past fall when I badly needed a patron(ess), but you might want to check in with her for new prayers and saints.

Also, the Moniales Dominican Nuns of New Jersey (whom you’ll remember from The Anchoress) have apparently been assisting some in hooking up with new saints as we go into 2010; see Lady Anck for more on the merits of getting fresh saints every year or two (“the saint chooses you”).

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Also, a scriptural bleg: I’m looking for some good sources on St. Paul to refute (for myself) the notion that he was simply a sexist. I mean, he was that, in a couple of ways [even my grandma admitted to that, when whe was alive]—but my friend the Episcopalian Biblical scholar points out that there was a lot more to Paul than that, and I’d like to know more about his enlightened side. So let me know if you have any bitchin’ background on or interpretation of his epistles—and it doesn’t, of course, have to be from a Roman Catholic perspective.

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Ryan Haber January 1, 2010 at 6:17 pm

I read What Paul Really Said About Women: The Apostle’s Liberating Views on Equality in Marriage, Leadership, and Love by John T. Bristow a number of years ago. I do not remember it well, but that I appreciated it. My thinking has evolved, so I am not sure how I would take it now. Here is an article online by the same that seems to summarize his major points.

Ephesians 5-6, containing the dreaded line, does a good job of its own apologetic if it is read carefully, and if one does not pause at the end of chapters, etc. Those aren’t part of the text and should be ignored when reading the Bible!

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