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only know the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too
many winters.
John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
Gosh, Rod McKuen does bring back memories. When I was in my teens he became quite an icon for the emotional ups and downs of adolescence. Like Leonard Cohen he had a great voice and wrote bitter sweet poetry: they were the two Princes of teenage angst. But sometimes they were bleak !!
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Blessings
Ah, memories.....
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