Joe Biden: A Life Lived in Faith
When Joseph R. Biden Jr. was sworn in as president on January 20, 2021, he was only the second Catholic to become president of the United States of America and the first since John F.…
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Saints and Sages – Winter 2022 Issue
"One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart—intelligence and goodness—shall man rise to a fulfillment…
Christmas Reflection 2021
By Elizabeth Roper This Christmas time my reflection is on the many crises in the world and the opportunity we are given to enact our spiritual callings and apply their ways of being to how…
Tidings of Comfort and Joy – F&F Christmas 2021 Newsletter
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ~ Edith Sitwell …
The Lantern and the Lamb
The lantern wound its way up the hill, three figures hunched around its meagre light. One of the shepherds held something swaddled tight in his fleece jacket, along with the warm stones they’d brought from…
Sights and Scenes Photo Album – Summer/Fall 2021 Issue
"The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever." – Sam Kean [dflip source=https://fellowshipandfairydust.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Photo-Issue-compressed.pdf] Can’t see the issue?…
The Test of Adam
Original Poem Transliteration Khabi maqsood-e-Khaliq Adam ko nigah-e-ishq seekhana Khabi imtehan-e-Adam aatish meh baagh milaana Tumhare manzar ko dekh kar shujaat bhi heraan hai Aye be-khabr, teri nigahon meh sar-e-ishq chuppa hai …
Song of a Faerie
She dances on petals of ivory flowers,her fingers brush the tiny hair of the leaves.Long wings flow behind her.I’d think she was an angel if she wasn’t so small. More join her, as the flowers…
Praying for Rain on Saint Swithin’s Day
Oh, yes, there are pale necromancers stillLike poor Macbeth’s witches summoning factsThat rise like bloated corpses to the surfaceOf strange electromechanical cauldrons But we consult the winds, the clouds, the starsWhose songs and shapes and…
Beauty Found Within: A Reflection on Beauty and the Beast
At exactly which moment are little girls first enthralled with Beauty and the Beast? Is it the iconic library, with its spiral staircases and book-lined floor, cathedral-sized ceiling, and bookshelves wrapped around the walls? Is…