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Extra, extra: On Canada, partisan orthodoxy, and Les Habs

The Tuesday Pillar Post

JD Flynn
Jun 29, 2021
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Hey everybody,

Welcome to The Tuesday Pillar Post.

In tomorrow’s first reading, Abraham casts Hagar and Ishmael into the wilderness, where an angel helps them find water, and promises that God will make a great nation of Ishmael.

The scene was was captured strikingly by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot in 1835:

Hagar in the Wilderness, Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris), Oil on canvas

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