“The Memory of Our Dead”, by Taynia-Renee Laframboise

By Taynia-Renee Laframboise, The Catholic Thing, Oct. 30, 2021

T. Franche dite Laframboise is a writer, speaker, and scripture scholar with degrees from Marquette and Notre Dame. ..

There is something almost paradoxical about a list. On the one hand, is there anything duller on earth? A mundane itemization of sundry matters that you can’t afford to forget but which don’t rank high enough to bother remembering. On the other hand, a list has power. Real power. It hardly matters whether it contains people, groceries, or inventory. Someone somewhere thought them important enough to note them down.

That should give us pause. For whatever is on a list, you can be assured that the list maker will circle back around to it. Action will be taken. (And may God help those who increasingly wind up on the wrong kind of a list these days.) …

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