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February 2026

February 20, 2026

While Marked with the Sign of the Cross

I don't have anything easy to tell you. I have been healing in public, or...

January 2026

January 20, 2026

That I Will See Him Face to Face

Life goes on as it has: terrible and historic in the great big world, and...

November 2025

November 04, 2025

Epiphany at Tunnel Number Eight

I went for a drive, in early November. It's soon enough after the end of...

July 2025

July 13, 2025

On the Sunday of the Good Samaritan

I went to Mass. I've been going almost every week lately. I'm giving myself permission...

July 08, 2025

A God of Justice and a Pile of Dusty Books

I couldn't find the Works of Charles Dickens. I have been trying to learn...

May 2025

May 09, 2025

A Word that Means “Father”

I dreamed I was at the Papal Conclave. In the dream, it made sense...

April 2025

April 25, 2025

The God Who Knows All Names

I woke up anxious. I have been at peace since the Easter liturgy, but it's...

April 21, 2025

Uncanny as the Empty Tomb

I went into Triduum, anxious. I was brought up to think that the Church was...

March 2025

March 26, 2025

The Only God Worth My Time

I had a little time, so I went to the chapel. It was that same...

December 2024

December 23, 2024

O Oriens, O Dawn

The winter solstice dawned bright and cold. I woke up on the darkest day of...

December 18, 2024

A Good Advent

I think it's been a good Advent. There's little to write about my life just...

December 12, 2024

O Precious the Snow

Winter is not astronomical, as many have observed before me. It's not to do with...

October 2024

October 18, 2024

Confession at Shafer’s Rock

I went to the Wildflower Reserve, to see how the world was going...

September 2024

September 21, 2024

On the Last Day of Summer

It's the very last day of summer. It's just after midnight as I'm...

September 13, 2024

Will You Walk With Me?

It hasn't been the best summer. August would have been just fine, if...

September 07, 2024

To a Quiet Place

Ashwagandha is another medicine I can't take. I tend to have backwards effects from...

August 2024

August 23, 2024

To Wake from a Nightmare

It started with a nightmare. Adrienne got up for school, very early in the morning....

August 15, 2024

A Sacramental Life

Marian solemnities are the hardest days. I am going to try not to be...

August 10, 2024

An Odyssey in the Garden

I went out to cull the drooping sunflowers. I want to grow an Autumn...

April 2024

April 03, 2024

The God of Crows and Eagles

On Holy Thursday I went to Mass, and that wasn't bad. My religious...

February 2024

February 15, 2024

Ash Wednesday, after the Nightmare

It was Ash Wednesday, but I couldn't stand to go to Mass, not yet....

January 2024

January 29, 2024

The Sign of the Lamb

I tried to go to Mass. I've failed at this several times since Christmas. The...

January 01, 2024

A Flash of Light

The sun went down on the last day of the year, though we couldn't...

December 2023

December 11, 2023

To Light Another Candle

I had a hard time on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. We...

December 06, 2023

En Una Noche Oscura, On A Dark Night

En una noche oscura, con ansias en amores imflamada, ¡oh dichosa uentura! salí sin ser...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

A Former Charismatic Confronts the Devil

It was one of those days that's very hard for former Charismatics. In fact,...

November 28, 2023

A Festival, A Troll, and a Sign of Contradiction

On Friday night, we saw the fireworks. The City of Steubenville put off the...

November 27, 2023

We Encounter Christ in Other People

I didn't die last week. Thank you to the people who were so kind to...

November 18, 2023

A Penitential Season

The season of Advent is coming. There was a package of purple and pink Advent...

November 02, 2023

A Saint is a Sinner, Deified

I went to Mass for the Solemnity of All Saints. I didn't have to....