Category: Book of Mev

Not the Pat Answer

Father Zosima then advises his suppliant, in some of the words that Father Ambrose of Optina Pustyn asked Dostoevsky to convey to Anna Grigoryevna: “Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and…

Mev and Andrew

For Suzanne Renard Mev Puleo died 28 years ago today and, out of the blue, I just remembered something Andrew Wimmer had written about the book I wrote about Mev way back in 2005. Even…

Stolen at Gunpoint

I’m grateful to have come across Kari’s kind correspondence in a file this evening. Dear Mark,  I just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for taking the time to write The Book…

Sitting

The night before I left, one of the patches containing painkiller came off, and Mev was in a lot of pain.  She wet the bed twice, vomited once.  For some reason, the alarm on the…

Serendipity

I was searching for one thing on my laptop,  and I came across this feedback  from a SLU student in 2006… Dear Dr. Chmiel, I am writing you to finally submit my insertion. I apologize…

A Source of Life

As a young adult entering the Sisters of Loretto at eighteen, somewhat naively, I spent a lot of genuine effort to read and take seriously the Gospel.  What has sustained me over the long haul,…

January 12, 1996

The first week of January was bright and bitterly cold. Pat Geier and Cristobhal, our friend from Guatemala, had spent Christmas and New Year’s with us and had already left for Louisville, but she was…

Being Together

Sheri Hostetler’s ReflectionGraduate Theological Union Memorial Service, March 1996 Mark has asked me to speak on his behalf today since I am a close friend of his and since I was one of the few…