The Strange Gift
It’s a special gift she told me. Make sure you treat it with great care. Endure it with love patiently. Most people will not understand. You’ll feel like you’re going nowhere, like you’re cycling endlessly …
Tag: Christianity
Celebrate All Saints Day
~By Amanda Pizzolatto Hello, hello, come one, come all Let me tell you about this holy day in fall Set up to honor a church in Rome Remembering those who have made their way home. …
A Catechism of Brokenness
The celebrant breaks the Body in two.The Body is broken.The celebrant is broken.The communicant is broken. Only the Word is whole: “This is My Body…” The celebrant breaks the Body in twoThat it may be…
I Have Called You Friends: Contemplating the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation
The April sky was clear. The light of brother sun was shining over me while I walked in that man-made canyon between the Midtown Towers. I stopped on the sidewalk. A strange thought had suddenly…
Men Without Piety: A Study of Chivalry in David Lowery’s The Green Knight
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall,…
Ecce Homo: A Reflection on the Manhood of Christ
And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe upon him and, plaiting a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. (Matt 27:28) Pilate said to them, “Here is the man.” (John 19:5)…
Do You Love Me?: A Chronicles of Narnia Story
Do You love me? I asked it first when we were sent away; when Father had already left (the halls echoed emptily without his laughing voice, like Peter’s without the weight), when Mum had…
Saint Maria Goretti and Me
By Meagan McKinstry I am not a Catholic, so the saints have never played much of a role in my religious practice. While many of their names are familiar to me, and I know a…
Springtime Gallows
"Come with me," came the call which hit my ears but ne'er to stall the last of my departure. The open door, the windows past through the yard to home at last and blessed gates…
Resurrection Power: An Easter Reflection
~ by Meagan McKinstry The author reflects on the significance of the Resurrection and how it should serve as a foundation for trusting in Christ, even in times when much seems to be going wrong.…