Faithful Friday: St. Justinian

December 5, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

By Lyn Wilson … Saint Justinian (or Stinan) of Ramsey was a 6th Century Monk from Breton who moved to Ramsey Island in Pembrokeshire in modern day Wales.

First Snow

December 2, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

By Sarah Losardo … Falling from grey skies / In big flakes, / Really coming down…

Faithful Friday: Catherine Laboure

November 28, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

By Sarah Losardo … It was in Paris that she discovered the identity of the priest in her vision – St. Vincent De Paul, the founder of the Sisters of Charity. In January 1830, Zoe finally joined the Sisters of Charity in Paris, taking the name Catherine. The same year, first in July and again in November, Sister Catherine was visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary, who entrusted to her a medallion to be given to the world.

The Delivery of Doom

November 25, 2025.Reading time 21 minutes.

By Ian Wilson … It was hard to describe; it wasn’t human, nor was it like any animal I had ever seen, like a parody of biology, a satanic practical joke. Its gawky body was ink-black. Multiple eyes blazed out of its head. Its mouth, if you could call it a mouth, was a mass of dripping tentacles. I screamed. Holding my rosary aloft, I shouted, “In Christ’s name, get back!”

Having a Mature Relationship with Jesus in the Spiritual Life

November 18, 2025.Reading time 5 minutes.

By Stephen Steiniger … Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. As such, he is due special attention and praise. He is alone among human beings. As true God and man, Jesus exists as one of us, but something more. He is the source and summit of our life. He is our beginning and end.

Guardians Of Atlanta Episode 8 – The Freakshow And The Eclipse

November 15, 2025.Reading time 38 minutes.

By Joshua David Ling … But I hear her evil calling me. / And I cannot turn away. / Save me please, oh Marlynn, my angel! / Please show me the way!

Faithful Friday: Saint Gregory Palamas

November 14, 2025.Reading time 4 minutes.

By Ian Wilson … St. Gregory Palamas was a highly influential saint of the Eastern Church, who is best remembered for advancing and defending the practice of hesychasm, or internal prayer. His life and written works have inspired many through the centuries to draw nearer to God in prayer and in an ascetic life.

Cara’s Drive

November 11, 2025.Reading time 9 minutes.

By Sarah Losardo … Cara dashed tears away from her face with the back of her hand, blinking hard in an attempt to see well enough to drive safely. Her twenty-year-old civic rattled a little at 70 miles per hour, but Cara was pretty sure it wasn’t anything serious. It certainly didn’t matter right now – all that mattered was getting home to Maryland to the side of her mother’s hospital bed.

Guardians Of Atlanta Episode 7 – Mirror: The Blessed Twin

November 8, 2025.Reading time 62 minutes.

By Joshua David Ling … Three Knights stood in her room spread out, / One grabbed her mouth from behind. / She tried to fight back as best she could, / But this plan was perfectly designed. / She suddenly felt tired and looked down to see / A needle in her arm.

Negotiating Toilet Paper

November 4, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Dignity, like treaties, can be broken In many ways…

Guardians Of Atlanta Episode 6 – Crusader: Leader Of The Guardians

November 2, 2025.Reading time 37 minutes.

By Joshua David Ling … A purple mist filled the room as William grabbed his sword Knox. / He stood by the doorway, fully prepared,  because he had no locks.

No, Halloween Is Not Satanic

October 31, 2025.Reading time 7 minutes.

By Ian Wilson … If you read the title of this article, you already know the conclusion I’m coming to. Halloween has been celebrated in Western Christianity, particularly in Britain, for hundreds of years.

So Fast Thou Growest

October 14, 2025.Reading time 9 minutes.

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Happy children playing in a roadside ditch / Barefoot and laughing in shorts and tees / A boy grabbing up a frog to frighten the girls/ A girl sloshing the boys with a bucket of muck

Appled Things

October 11, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

By Michael Stalcup … Glory be to God for appled things

Because They Are Young

October 6, 2025.Reading time 2 minutes.

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Little children attend the school of Creation: / A stick, a caterpillar upon a leaf / A pine nut spiraling down upon its wing / A yellow butterfly dancing autumn in

Hobbit Day

September 23, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … I read that today is Hobbit Day / On the autumn equinox every year…

In a Better America

September 9, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … In a better America this would be the first day of school – / Labor Day is for swimming in the creek / For a sunburn, for a catfish spine in your heel / For sandwiches and sand and ants and fun

The Rich Man, Lazarus, and Me

August 23, 2025.Reading time 5 minutes.

By Sarah Levesque Losardo … In the Bible, the rich man seemingly ignored the poor, destitute, starving man at his door. Perhaps he thought himself generous for letting Lazarus even stay there. Or perhaps that is where Lazarus collapsed of hunger. In any case, I find four points of this story particularly interesting.

August is Unusually Hot – Someone Must be Punished for It

August 16, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Having only graduated from high school (I think the quarter-credit for driver’s education put me over the top) I am certainly no climatologist, meteorologist, or vulgar Swedish child, but I am not persuaded of the concept of man-made climate change.

Doorstopper

August 9, 2025.Reading time 17 minutes.

By Jeremy Abrahamson … Why am I writing a two thousand page historical romance in a the tiktok generation? Because that is the exact generation that needs it.