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February 2022

February 17, 2022

Dark Devotional: Let Me Smite Him

“G-d hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

Dark Devotional: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Apologetics

I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in...

January 13, 2022

Dark Devotional: From Good Wine to Bitter Faith

Weddings are stressful, even when everyone is behaving themselves. When people start misbehaving, weddings can...

December 2021

December 23, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Virgin Mary’s Guide to Biblical Motherhood

When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son,...

December 16, 2021

Dark Devotional: Mary, Motherhood, and Mixed Feelings

Dark Devotional: Mary, Motherhood, and Mixed Feelings Behold, I am the handmaid of...

December 09, 2021

Dark Devotional: Holding the Door for Jesus

Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged! The Lord, your God, is in your...

December 03, 2021

Second Sunday in Advent: Let Me Love You Right Now

What are you waiting for? Kristen challenged me with this question on the first day...

November 2021

November 19, 2021

Dark Devotional: Can We Love the Alien?

This Sunday is the last Sunday in the liturgical year, the Solemnity of Our...

November 12, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Death of the World

It shall be a time unsurpassed in distress since nations began until that time (Dan....

October 2021

October 15, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Divine Bellhop

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher,...

September 2021

September 24, 2021

Dark Devotional: Mind Your Own Distractions

If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you...

September 17, 2021

Dark Devotional: Playing Craps with Jesus

“If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and...

September 10, 2021

Dark Devotional: Get Thee Behind Me, Lord

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living (Ps. 116:9). ...

September 03, 2021

Dark Devotional: Silence, the Love Language of God

“Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf...

June 2021

June 20, 2021

St. Average Joe

This is a continuation of our series recognizing the Year of St. Joseph. St....

June 04, 2021

Dark Devotional: Body Drawn and Quartered

When I was a child, we attended Mass at a Dominican convent the next town...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Dark Devotional: Who Owns the Vine?

“The sexual abuse is awful and all, but you just can’t leave! You don’t want...

April 23, 2021

Dark Devotional: Anointed Sheep, Shepherd and Queen

The parable of the Good Shepherd . . . This is a familiar one,...

April 16, 2021

Dark Devotional: Of False Ghosts and Real Monsters

While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to...

April 09, 2021

Dark Devotional: Seeing Is Believing

Jesus said to [Thomas], “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

Dark Devotional: Obedient to Death

[Christ Jesus] humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on...

March 12, 2021

Dark Devotional: Darkness and Light

Whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be...

March 05, 2021

Dark Devotional: Subversive Worship, In Spirit and in Truth

I can’t believe we’re back here already. Last year on this Third Sunday of Lent,...

February 2021

February 19, 2021

Dark Devotional: You Want It Darker?

“When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the...

February 03, 2021

Joseph Jacobson (a.k.a. Joseph Helison) Did Not Beget Jesus Josephson

Naming names: St. Joseph did it and so do monks. I am a...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

Dark Devotional: Who Recognizes Jesus?

Sunday’s Gospel leaves me with some questions. The first one is about who among us...

January 15, 2021

Dark Devotional: You Will Be Called

[Andrew] first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the...

May 2018

May 11, 2018

Dark Devotional: More Than a Slave?

Art by the colorful and wovenly Brian Jocks. In last Sunday’s gospel reading, Jesus commands...

February 2018

February 16, 2018

Dark Devotional: Happily Stuck in the Desert

My family recently spent a week in Big Bend National Park in western Texas. As...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

Dark Devotional: A Wild Messiah

`` I still remember the first time I read The Chronicles of Narnia, about...