Easter in My Landscape: Celtic Reflections on the Season
It is through the ‘Book of Nature’ that I came to Christ. My journey to faith was through a sense of the divine in all things, and some wonderful messages of Truth which I saved…
Year: 2018
The Half-Blood Princess: A Harry Potter Story
~ by Yatzstar “No.” “Please, Professor! Just for one night!” Harry and Ginny Potter stood within Professor Snape's personal quarters at Hogwarts, facing off the stern man. “No,” said Snape, more forcefully. “Can’t you send…
Holy Communion
If we look deeply enough, If we pause … long enough, If we become still enough, If we gaze simply enough, If we are quiet enough, then we begin, at last, to understand that the…
Soaring and Epic: Magical Movie Scores to Inspire the Imagination
I stand at my bedroom window, hands clasped against my chest, mouth hanging half-open, lungs barely collecting air. A heart-arresting battle is raging across the sloping green hill and in among the towering…
What the Donkey Saw
Author’ Note: In the heavenly song of the angels that Avi hears, astute readers will recognise my own Latin translation of “Listening to You,” from the Who’s rock opera, Tommy, without which work I would…
Regeneration of the Soul: The Liturgy and the Mystery of Resurrection
The mystery of Easter is the center and culmination of the entire liturgical year. Every mystery of the Faith which we celebrate throughout the whole year is directed and ordered to the Resurrection. Without the…
Saint Brigid, the Mary of Erin (525 A.D.)
By Ronnie Smith Word Count: 191 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A poem of St. Bridget The shrine of this island was forest until torched by faith that won’t expire a flame thrown…
Blood and Roses: A Beauty and the Beast Serial – Chapter 2: The Beast’s Story
There was indeed a time when the beast had been a man…then he had forgotten how to be a man, long before his form had been altered. As son of the Marquis, ruling over his…
Inherit the Earth: A Planet of the Apes Story
I am Caesar, leader of the apes, my people, hunted ones who wish only to be left in peace. Yet the humans would erase us from the face of our earth. They look at me…