Already and Not Yet: Liturgy as Participation in and Anticipation of Reality
His body ravaged by cancer, John Aroutiounian was barely able to stand for the recitation of the Nicene Creed that Catholics say every Sunday at Mass. When I heard him whisper longingly the last line...
View ArticleDeath is a Veil: Encountering the Ultimate Reality of Love Through Grief
About halfway through a two and a half hour liturgy at St. Vartan’s Armenian Orthodox Cathedral on April 25, 2021, a giant curtain closed between the congregation and the altar. Staring at the cross...
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What’s in a Name? Identity, Voice and Loyalty
In 1998, working on my graduate school application essays, one them asked me to reflect on how I would contribute to diversity. I wrote, “My father is Irish-American from New York. My mother was born...
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How to Survive a Cuban Family Reunion: You Don’t Need to Know Anyone’s Real Name
Prologue: I wrote this essay on July 4, 2014, as I prepared to go to Miami for a reunion of the Gastón family. My grandmother was Eloisa Gastón Segrera, and at this reunion her six siblings gathered...
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Margarita Mooney’s article on how educators ought to teach students about the universal principles that unite us and sustain the hope needed for social harmony is published in Public Discourse. The...
View ArticleArticle on “Why Choose Mystery Over Ideology?” Published in Comment Magazine
Margarita Mooney’s article on recovering the role of beauty in education is published in Comment (online and in print). The post Article on “Why Choose Mystery Over Ideology?” Published in Comment...
View ArticleArticle on “Ráfagas for My Birthday: Ending the cycle of violence in...
“Bbbbooom!” Juan pointed his right hand in the air like he was holding an AK-47. It was a Saturday, the day before my twenty-third birthday. Juan promised me that at midnight, he would mark my birthday...
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Marriage and Identity: Continuity and a New Beginning as Margarita Mooney...
Who knew that at the very same time I’d write about adding a second last name to my identity to acknowledge my mother and my Cuban heritage in July 2021, I’d meet the man I was going to marry, David...
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How (Not) to Prepare for a Retreat: Listening with our Bodies in Prayer
Although I longed for a weekend of total silence, I was scared of that the retreat center I was heading to at the Monastery of Bethlehem in Livingston, NY in the Catskill Mountains warned retreatants...
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