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Read: The Great Gatsby, By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Written by Kristen West McGuire   
gatsbyI assumed the first line of The Great Gatsby was, “The rich are different than you and I,” because I had read that quotation of Fitzgerald so often. But it isn’t there. All I saw was some really terrific prose.
 
Then again, it’s fitting that I would use gossip and hearsay to learn about F. Scott Fitzgerald, because his entire fame and fortune rested on mining the Jazz Age society column for free publicity. While the “glitterati” of his day found that gossip put them in a gilded cage, Fitzgerald figured out how to make that cage pay.
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Meet Wendy Cukierski: The Crunchy Catholic Mama
Written by Kristen West McGuire   

baby(Wendy Cukierski is the mother of fourteen children, and lives in upstate New York where she and her husband Walt have a small farm and sell Catholic sacramentals online at www.cukierski.net. This interview originally ran in the January 2007 issue of Secretum Meum Mihi, when little Wilson (left) was the youngest.)

 

Kristen: Are you barefoot right now?
Wendy: Yes-- oh my gosh you caught me! But I’m not pregnant! I’m the crunchy Catholic mama.

 

Kristen: Were you and your husband always devout Catholics?
Wendy: I’m a cradle Catholic. Walt and I met in college and got married at 20. He was agnostic. The priest who married us told me, “Wendy, I feel in my heart that your husband is truly not agnostic. We’ll have a convert on our hands someday.” We did!

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But she shall be saved through childbearing?
Written by Kristen West McGuire   

bibleI Timothy 2:8-15
 
I desire then that in every place
the men should pray, lifting holy hands
without anger or quarreling;

also that women should adorn
themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly
apparel, not with braided hair or
gold or pearls or costly attire
but by good deeds, as befits
women who profess religion.

Let a woman learn in silence
with all submissiveness.

I permit no woman to teach or to have
authority over men; she is to keep silent.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

Yet woman will be saved through bearing
children, if she continues in faith and
love and holiness, with modesty.
(Revised Standard Version)

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