At the Tomb
The morning started like any other except there was a darkness, a heaviness that had settled over the world. Before she knew him, the woman lived her life without joy or love. How could one live with…
Tag: Lent & Easter
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved: Chapter 2
The cup. When had Jesus mentioned that before? It was that day, long ago, or so it seemed, when my brother and I had requested the place of honor in the Lord’s kingdom. You do…
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved: Chapter 1
I don’t understand. That was the only coherent thought I could grasp amid the tumult swirling in my mind. Seized with foreboding intuition, I knew that this was going to be a night unlike any…
Christos Voskrese!
For Tod *** The world is unusually quiet this dawn With fading stars withdrawing in good grace And drowsy, dreaming sunflowers, dewy-drooped, Their golden crowns all motionless and still, Stand patiently in their ordered garden…
Pascha Psalm
Hear the faint heralds, O soldiers, Calling distant above the far battleground. Long have you fought in night's deepest hour, Long have you struggled, sore-weary, with shadowy foes, But now the sky pales, and the…
The Doctor’s Easter: A Doctor Who Story
It was Easter Sunday. Churches all over the world were crammed full of people celebrating the holiday, but the Doctor was not one of them. He sat in his TARDIS, twiddling his thumbs, waiting for…
Susan, Do You Love Me?: A Chronicles of Narnia Story
Susan Pevensie sat tensely in the front row of a van, staring forlornly out the window as the vehicle bumped along a dusty rut in the Serengeti National Park. She had no idea why she’d…
Mother of Sorrows
I’ve held my son in my arms today. It was so long since last I did that. Years. For three years now he has been dying to me, a little at a time. I suppose…
Those Final Fateful Hours: A Triduum Reflection
Some twenty centuries ago in the Ancient Holy City of Jerusalem, thirteen men were assembled to celebrate the Pascal Feast of The Passover in a place that has come to be known as “The Upper…
Palm Sunday: The Adventure Begins Over There by Mr. Gomez’ Pickup Truck
“And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes” -Chaucer Everyone is a palmer this holy day Seeking the strange, elusive shores of truth Each pilgrim bearing in his eager hands A palm frond and a photocopied…