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Donald Trump said today that “we will be protected by God.”
St. Teresa of Avila said “Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”
May God protect us.
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Photo Credit: Patrick Scudder
After a short absence of about three decades, I am returning to the stage. I will be playing the role of Guy in Check Please, one of three plays in the Eagan Theater Company‘s fall one acts. Performances are Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8 at 7 PM at Eagan Pointe, 4232 Blackhawk Road. In this show, I go on a series of hilariously bad dates. The other two plays are Changing Rooms, a comedy about women’s dressing rooms, and The Dumbwaiter, a drama about two assassins waiting for their next assignment.
Advance tickets are $12. At the door $15. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Running time, including two intermissions, about 2:15.
I’m really excited to be in the play and think it will be a lot of fun.
Kiera Burke as Honoria Wales.
The Minnesota Fringe Festival starts in two days, and my daughter Kiera is in two shows. If you would like to see her, this handy post will help you.
Kiera’s shows:
The Story of You and Me at SpringHouse Ministry Center
Babylon Revisited at the Ritz Theater Proscenium
Important: Kiera is only in two performances of Babylon Revisited. So if you want to see her, you need to go on Thursday, Aug. 11 at 10 PM or Friday, August 12 at 4:00 PM.
The Fringe is now selling day passes rather than tickets to individual shows. If you would like to see both of Kiera’s shows for the price of one day pass, your options are:
Thursday, Aug. 11
The Story of You and Me 5:30 PM
Babylon Revisited 10:00 PM
Friday, Aug. 12
Babylon Revisited 4:00 PM
The Story of You and Me 7:00 PM
The Story of You and Me is an original play following the relationship of a boy and a girl from elementary school (Kiera) through adulthood. Babylon Revisited is an adaptation of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story.
Leave extra time to park at both venues. Box office opens 30 minutes before showtime. For more info on tickets, other shows, etc., see the Minnesota Fringe website.
Here’s Kiera’s full schedule:
The Story of You and Me (SpringHouse Ministry Center, 610 W. 28th St., Minneapolis)
Thursday, Aug. 4, 7:00 PM
Saturday, Aug. 6, 2:30 PM
Monday, Aug. 8, 8:30 PM
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 8:30 PM
Thursday, Aug. 11, 5:30 PM
Friday, Aug. 12, 7:00 PM
Saturday, Aug. 13, 4:00 PM
Babylon Revisited (Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis)
Thursday, Aug. 11, 10:00 PM
Friday, Aug. 12, 4:00 PM
When I was a young student, and the foreign language teachers wanted to convince us Latin-trained former middle schoolers to take a modern language in high school, they told us that we would have no trouble keeping the two languages separate in our brains. And it turned out to mostly be true. I became conversational in French and rarely tried to substitute a Latin word.
Looking back, I think I probably benefited from the fact that we didn’t learn Latin as a spoken language. There was no reason for Latin words to pop into my head while speaking French, because I never spoke Latin. But now I’m learning Spanish, and French words keep trying to show up. Sometimes I think it’s just that I don’t know the Spanish, but I’ve definitely substituted French words when I should have known the Spanish. Once I said “sept” and was met with “siete?” and I’m sitting there thinking “isn’t that what I said?” until it finally struck me why I was being asked this. Perhaps more disturbingly, Spanish is occasionally creeping in to my French. My daughter asked me a yes/no question in French and I said “sí,” and she just glared at me.
I’m learning Spanish, because I think it’s beneficial for a Catholic lay pastoral minister to be at least passingly familiar with the language. And I’m having fun learning another language. But it’s not without its challenges.
Science fiction author Naomi Kritzer, who in my unbiased opinion is an excellent writer, has recently been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards for her short story “Cat Pictures Please.” Super exciting!
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