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2017-06-19T12:45:50-05:00

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Séance with the Freudenabteilung (or, Communing with Dead Nazi Sex Slaves): Listening to Joy Division as Religious Experience

Last updated on: June 19, 2017 at 12:45 pm By Guest Contributor

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” – Neitszche When you struggle with depression, it’s tempting to juxtapose your own horror stories with the real horror stories of history in an attempt to gain a more sober perspective. But these efforts usually backfire and cause even more despair. Pilgrims must be on... Read more

2017-06-16T12:01:26-05:00

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Trapped in the Nightmare: A Bloomsday Dark Devotional

Last updated on: June 16, 2017 at 12:01 pm By Guest Contributor

June 16 is Bloomsday — a special day for Irish literary geeks, on which fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses gather in Dublin to retrace the steps–and drink the drinks–of the novel’s hero, Leopold Bloom, who both starts and finishes his surreal Odyssean journey in his wife’s bed. Ulysses, with its ring-like structure and themes of transformation, is a story for moderns trapped within the cyclical “nightmare” of history, from which the only escape is a kind of mythic re-imagining... Read more

Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Tennessee Williams

The Dark Wood

Ulysses

2017-06-18T22:42:50-05:00

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Pest’s Letters: To My Friend Who Died of an Overdose

Last updated on: June 18, 2017 at 10:42 pm By Matt Lafleur

They found your body on the floor of your house last week. I don’t know any details, but the cause was an overdose...surprising few if any. Read more

2017-06-10T21:40:38-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Frankenstein and the Most Holy Trinity

Last updated on: June 10, 2017 at 9:40 pm By Guest Contributor

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you. –St. Paul “I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects. This being you must create.” –Frankenstein’s monster It was Christmas in Guatemala. My fiancé... Read more

Dark Devotional

Frankenstein

Gabriela Abascal Bollich

Mary Shelley

Trinitarian God

Trinity

2017-06-02T11:30:52-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Speak My Language

Last updated on: June 2, 2017 at 11:30 am By Matt Lafleur

I don’t sound very Christian. That’s what I was told after I proudly mentioned to my neighbor, a white haired and thoroughly religious grandmother-type, to check out the blog I sometimes wrote for, Sick Pilgrim. A couple of days later, she got back to me with that assessment. And she didn’t mean it as an insult, just a blunt and honest statement from a very kind lady who respects and looks up to me very much. So when she said... Read more

2017-05-30T22:13:13-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Go and Make a Mess of Things

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 10:13 pm By Guest Contributor

Could it be that our weakness is exactly what the power of the Gospel needs to reach the poor and persecuted? Read more

Sarah Summers Granger

2017-05-23T23:58:35-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Don’t Lay Your Hands on Me

Last updated on: May 23, 2017 at 11:58 pm By Guest Contributor

I was delivered! I was free! After all, hands were laid on me and demons had left me by the legions. All I had to do was believe it. Read more

2017-05-18T14:18:30-05:00

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Things Keeping Us Alive, May ’17

Last updated on: May 18, 2017 at 2:18 pm By Matt Lafleur

Sometimes April showers don’t bring May flowers. Sometimes the thing keeping you alive last month gets taken off Netflix a few short days after you say it’s a small joy in your life. Netflix is a cruel, cruel mistress. RIP, Scrubs. I need to hear about small joys in peoples’ lives. I love it. Those small, seemingly trivial things that make people smile are meaningful to me. And hopefully to you too. *** Sarah Walsh owns a small coffee company in... Read more

The Chronicles of Narnia. wine and fries

The Leftovers

The Necks

2017-05-16T13:04:30-05:00

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Looking Past the Miracle: The Poetry of Mary Szybist

Last updated on: May 16, 2017 at 1:04 pm By Guest Contributor

I first heard Mary Szybist’s poems about 13 years ago in a St. Louis reading series. The illustrious restaurant/bar that hosted the series was dimly lit that night, save for strings of small white lights around the picture window to the street. The lighting created a large halo behind the readers—Szybist, a professor at Lewis & Clark College, and her husband, Jerry Harp. Szybist’s poems like “Via Negativa” enthralled me: Sometimes it’s too hard with words or dark or silence.... Read more

Trying to Say God

women in the Catholic Church

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Trying to Say God

2017-05-12T16:51:45-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Three Ways to Survive the Mother’s Day Homily

Last updated on: May 12, 2017 at 4:51 pm By Guest Contributor

Dear Catholic Women, If none of your children have any embarrassing quirks, or if your children are all under the age of 12 and haven’t made choices that cause you to want to crawl under the pew, then feel free to move on. Enjoy the homily, enjoy the blessing your priest bestows on all the women in the parish and the flower they give you on the way out. But if you have teens and young adults learning their way... Read more

Dark Devotional

women in the Catholic Church

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