By Kathryn Fogleman-White Ah, Halloween! The night of costumes, candy, and the occasional over-the-top haunted house. For some Christians, this holiday stirs up discomfort—images of ghosts, ghouls, and witches may feel at odds with our faith. But what if we flipped the script? What if, instead of retreating behind locked doors and dimmed porch lights, […]
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By Ian Wilson … A Walter Ulric story. A cool, autumn breeze filtered into the room through the half-open window as I puffed thoughtfully on my cigarillo. Conrad LeFontain sat in the corner, reading something on his tablet. Just outside, the two bull terriers alerted to a presence on the property, approaching our office. “Mail call!” said a voice.
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By Cordelia Fitzgerald (G) “And [Jacob] dreamed that there was a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it” (Genesis 28:12). Thus is described Jacob’s Ladder, which is, after all, not his. It acts, rather, as a highway […]
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By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
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**Only a few days left!** We are holding a contest for the best picture that encapsulates Autumn. The winning entry will be put on the Table of Contents page of our Autumn issue. Other entries will be displayed on another page.
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By Cordelia Fitzgerald Have you ever played Magic Eye? You know, those strangely pixelated and patterned pictures that you’re supposed to stare at and cross your eyes and twist your brain until you can’t see the 3D image everyone claims is there? I have. And a good many tries into it, I (sort of) figured […]
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by Ian Wilson Beloved by the poor and downtrodden, St. Alphonsus Liguori was born in rather privileged circumstances. Born in Naples, Italy in 1696 to a captain in the Royal Navy and a devout mother of aristocratic lineage, Alphonsus was raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. As a youth, he joined the […]
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By Sarah Levesque … John Coleridge Patteson traveled Europe, learning many languages, then, inspired by George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, became a missionary to the people of Melanesia – a group of small island countries north of Australia…
By Sarah Levesque
St. Helena, born in about 248 AD, was the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great. Born in apparently humble circumstances, and said to be a Christian at the time of her marriage, she bore her husband Constantus his only son. Shortly thereafter, however, Constantus divorced her to marry the daughter of an ally. The boy, […]
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Though he was the forgotten preacher of the First Great Awakening, Henry Muhlenberg left an indelible mark on the Lutheran Church of the United States
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At the age of 21, Grafton was confirmed in the Episcopal Church. Two years later, he graduated from Harvard University with a law degree, but soon recognized his calling to the ministry.
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A garden is a Department of Metaphysics
Promethean fire and shadows in a cave of light
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall
By Ian Wilson John Bosco was perhaps one of the more eccentric saints of the Catholic Church, though can one truly be a saint without being a bit odd? As a young lad in Sardinia (Italy), Bosco saw a performance by a circus troupe and was instantly obsessed. He began training himself in acrobatics and […]
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What if you had the opportunity to completely start over, begin again truly, if I may coin a phrase, unburdened by what has been?
By Monica Murray Durr
By Cordelia Fitzgerald. In an embarrassing moment, I couldn’t remember if St. Jude was the patron saint of impossible cases or hopeless ones. Nevermind, said I to myself, it all means the same thing. But au contraire, my fickle self, for they are indeed quite different. The Bible is succinct as regards the former: “Because […]
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The 23rd Pope of Rome was born sometime in the third century, AD – no one knows exactly when. Little is known of the details of his life prior to his papacy other than he was born in the city of Rome to ethnically Greek parents. From a young age, he was drawn by God […]
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By Ian Wilson (G) To begin to interpret the Bible, we must first read and understand it on it’s own terms. We cannot bring our modern, Westernized sensibilities to the text. We cannot bring to the text a meaning which the authors did not intend. We cannot bring modern, textual criticism to the text, the way we […]
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**Only a few days left!** We are holding a contest for the best picture that encapsulates Summer. The winning entry will be put on the Table of Contents page of our Summer issue. Other entries will be displayed on another page.
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Laurence “Mack in Texas” Hall (G) Teenagers opened the doors for me at MassWhich used to be my job, but they stepped upAnd in stepping up they are replacing meWhich is good – I miss my youth but delight in theirs A boy and a girl giggled and whisperedIn a language I don’t know except […]
Read MoreBy Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall “He will not refuse one who is so blithe to go to Him” -Saint Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons With just a telephone, a clipboard, and a stutter He was a happy band of some of our best friends: May we with him At last approach that […]
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