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Randall Smith

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Crossing Yourself When You Enter the Church, by Randall Smith

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By Randall Smith
| The Brown Pelican Society of Louisiana
By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing, April 14, 2026 Randall B. Smith is a Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His latest book is From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Body. Many readers here likely witnessed Baptisms recently, especially if they went to the Easter Vigil Mass. By the grace of the Holy Spirit, we seem to have been blessed with a good number of Baptisms this year.
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Poetry in Church

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By Randall Smith
| buff.ly
Augustine admits in Confessions that when he was young, he did not like the Scriptures; he found the language ugly and uninspiring. He preferred Cicero and Virgil. Worse yet, some things in the Scriptures caused him to think Christianity was ridiculous. Who would be so naïve as to think that God has a right hand? God doesn’t have a body! What a bunch of rubes Christians must be.
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Remember That You Are Dust

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By Luis Lugo, Randall Smith, David G. Bonagura
| buff.ly
The second Creation story in the Book of Genesis states that “the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”  Although man was formed bodily from the dust of the earth, it was by God’s divine breath that he became a living being. This conjoining of the dust of the earth and the divine breath is what made man a rational animal. The whole man, body and soul, is created in the image and likeness of God.
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