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Siobhan, check in!

I have read that Ireland’s health workers have the world’s highest rate of Covid-19, so please check in Siobhan. I’m worried about you.  Reader response is (obviously) low these days (moral of story: don’t  put up and close down blogs every couple of years), but occasionally I wonder how my old readers are doing. 

Meanwhile, I have finished my review for Peter Kwasniewski’s Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright (Angelico Press, 2020). I possibly went overboard on the feasting analogy, but I discovered it was the best way to describe the structure and properties of the book. One day I hope to write something with as much substance–something as meaty, as it were.  But what I most admire about Peter K is that he works on his writing craft day after day. 

Kwasniewski is prolific, but he’s not cranking it out. He’s thinking, structuring, and polishing those lovely or striking metaphors. Back in Jesuit theology school, I was taught to mark up books with symbols denoting desolation, consolation, new ideas, important information, and questions. For PK I have added a little daisy for phrases or sections I find particularly lovely. It’s moving that in promoting the Traditional Latin Mass, Kwasniewski is striving to write about it as beautifully as he can. 

Praise the Lord

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