Around the year 303 AD, under the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian, the Christian priest Felix was captured and ordered to offer incense to idols of Romans gods. The statues fell shattered at his…
Pen ink and mascara smear The tear-stained pages of Her little lined journal With the lavender cover. The black ink and mascara Intertwine. The words Tumble out of her Sobbing, Sobbing, Sobbing…
I don’t know about you, but I’ve read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion more often than is probably healthy. The frequency of my readings, however, pointed out some rather interesting facts that you might not…
In his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” J.R.R. Tolkien discusses “a special skill, a kind of elvish craft” that is necessary to make a Fantasy world believable. He later calls this craft “Enchantment.” If you look up…
I once met a fine young man Winning in his manners, honest in his speech With ideals that defied the world So broad in their scope, believing in the unseen Clinging to faith, and when…
“God created man in His own Image, in the Image of God He created him . . . and, behold, it was very good” (Gen. 1:27, 30). How many in our culture today truly…
We are laden with Immortal snow. It seems we will Never again breathe, buried under these shrouds, frozen beneath these sorrows of Things long passed away. Can you hear the loneliness Exhale around us? Still, distant memories…
Early one morning, approximately 12:15, shortly after completing a viewing of The Two Towers, I realized how much I loved Faramir, and how generally awesome and admirable he is. So dutifully, later that morning, I…
The tradition has become firmly entrenched in my family to the point where it wouldn’t be Christmas Eve without it. Every year, after we return from evening Mass, we all cuddle up in…
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