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Shemaiah Gonzalez

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July 02, 2021

Cannonball Moment: A Friend's Death

July 02, 2021/ Shemaiah Gonzalez
Cannonball Moment: A Friend's Death

Like St. Ignatius, we all have "Cannonball Moments", a moment where your story could have taken a darker path, but instead brought into God’s brilliant light. I wrote about one of mine for Ignatian Spirituality's #31DayswithIgnatius


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July 02, 2021/ Shemaiah Gonzalez/ 1 Comment
death, faith, ignatian spirituality
April 17, 2021

Our Neighbor

April 17, 2021/ Shemaiah Gonzalez
Our Neighbor

Even in pain and sickness and exhaustion, my neighbor radiates God’s love to others. She feels Christ close to her, and in turn, we feel him close too. She is unafraid, for she truly believes what she has always said she believed.

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April 17, 2021/ Shemaiah Gonzalez/ Comment
death, faith, community
March 19, 2021

Book Review: Awakened By Death

March 19, 2021/ Shemaiah Gonzalez
Book Review: Awakened By Death

Death has been at the forefront of our thoughts for the past year, no matter how we try to push it away. My review for Christiana N. Peterson’s Awakened By Death for U.S. Catholic.

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book review, death, US Catholic
January 18, 2021

Andrew Wyeth's Snow Hill and the Subjects of Art

January 18, 2021/ Shemaiah Gonzalez
Andrew Wyeth's Snow Hill and the Subjects of Art

"The snow is untouched. No footprints lead in or out. Have they danced through a snowstorm? Have they been there forever?"

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art, curator, death
December 10, 2020

Book Review: Brandy Schillace Death’s Summer Coat

December 10, 2020/ Shemaiah Gonzalez
Book Review: Brandy Schillace Death’s Summer Coat

Why are we so afraid of death? It wasn’t always so. In Death’s Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches Us about Life and Living, Dr. Brandy Schillace explores how our society has sanitized death and made it foreign and unfamiliar.

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book review, death
October 27, 2020

Memento Mori: Confronting Death to Live Well

October 27, 2020/ Shemaiah Gonzalez
Memento Mori: Confronting Death to Live Well

The spiritual practice of memento mori confronts death, until we no longer find it frightening.

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October 27, 2020/ Shemaiah Gonzalez/ 1 Comment
nw catholic, faith, death
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