{"id":5054,"date":"2006-01-29T23:19:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/what-did-you-hear-6.html"},"modified":"2006-01-29T23:19:04","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T23:19:04","slug":"what-did-you-hear-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/what-did-you-hear-6.html","title":{"rendered":"What did you hear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea what common hymn we all could have heard this week. Perhaps the question of the day will be &#8211; how did your parish mark the beginning of Catholic Schools Week, if it did so?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richleonardi.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/dancing-our-way-into-catholic-schools.html\">I doubt any of you can top Rich Leonardi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t. Our music was, as usual, unmemorable, made all the more so because it was the 8AM Mass, we are all at some stage of illness, and I was exhausted. The homily was odd. It was about what we can learn from the Cross &#8211; learning, as in Catholic Schools Week, okay, and the Cross &#8211; well, there was this big old pilgrimage cross plunked right in front of the altar, so that was the reference point. But no reference to any of today&#8217;s Scripture readings at all, and very oddly, a quite pointed reference to the beginning of 1 John, and then &#8211; ba-bum. Nothing. Not a mention of <em>Deus Caritas Est<\/em>, which I thought for sure was the purpose of the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/hancaquam.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/put-down-missalette-hearing-homily.html\">Fr. Philip Powell, OP, offers suggestions on &quot;how to listen to a homily.&quot; Discussion ensues!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea what common hymn we all could have heard this week. 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Our music was, as usual, unmemorable,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What did you hear? - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/what-did-you-hear-6.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What did you hear? - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have no idea what common hymn we all could have heard this week. 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The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. 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