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Written by Beverly Mantyh
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 (Translated by Gerard Hopkins. Chicago: Loyola Press. 312 pp. $12.95)
We prepare our homes for Easter by dusting away the cobwebs the dim light of winter hid and washing our windows to let the spring sun shine through clearly. Like a good spring cleaning, Lenten fasting cleans up our lives so we can see our spiritual cobwebs, then a good confession clears the way for the light of Christ’s resurrection. It sometimes takes a different point of view, in addition to a healthy dose of God’s grace, to see what really needs attention. Vipers’ Tangle is just the novel to jolt us into seeing a few more of those cobwebs.
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Written by Kristen West McGuire
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 Kristen: Did you grow up Catholic?
Genevieve: I had a tricky childhood, nominally Protestant, but far from God. I yearned for something deeper. Christianity was a backdrop at home, a polite structure for vague piety and nice family meals. I’d go to Young Life meetings and doodle crosses on my jeans and stuff like that.
The Catholics were a low class religion, and the Episcopalians were the elite. If you sided with the immigrants, there was a tacit assumption that you must not be using your brain. But, what drew me to the Church was the logic, the way that all the pieces fit together.
Kristen: And so you became a low-class Catholic? (laughs)
Genevieve: That was my rebellion. Some try cults or drugs, but I did the Catholic thing. I received all of my sacraments the year that I married, in 1984. I was a fanatic.
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Written by Kristen West McGuire
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Esther Chapter 7
1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2* And on the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.” 3 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”
5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he,
that would presume to do this?” 6 And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was in terror before the king and the queen. 7 And the king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. 8 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was; and the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the words left the mouth of the king,
they covered Haman’s face.
9 Then said Harbona, one of the
eunuchs in attendance on the king, “Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” 10 And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai.
Then the anger of the king abated.
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