Author: em6298

• The Bishop Who Faced Down a Sorcerer’s Fire

  The Life of St. Leo, Bishop of Catania (ca. 780) The mountain was always watching. Etna rose above the city… Read more.

• Ten Men Seize the Hem of Your Garment

  When Fasting Becomes Feast — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on Zechariah 8:7-17 and Zechariah 8:19-23 The Church,… Read more.

• The Soldier Who Chose the Desert

  The Life of Venerable Theodore of Sanaxar (1718–1791) On a winter night in 1738, in the middle of a roaring… Read more.

• The Green Wood and the Dry

  When the Veil Tears and the Feast Begins — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on Jude 1:11–25 and… Read more.

• The Lion Who Stood When Everyone Knelt

  The Life of Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople (died 449) The old man knew they were going to kill him.… Read more.

• Rend the Heart and the Mountains Bleed Wine

  The Torn Veil of the Self — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on Joel 2:12-26 and Joel 3:12-21… Read more.

• The Gaze That Burns and Does Not Consume

  Kiss, Denial, and the Flesh That Remembers — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on Jude 1:1–10 and Luke… Read more.

• The Stones Remember What the Striving Forget

  Bread, Betrayal, and the Grammar of Servant-Kingship — A Reflection for Meatfare Week (Cheesefare Week) on 3 John 1:1–15 and… Read more.

• The Girl Who Became a Pillar of Fire

  The Life of Saint Etheldreda of Ely (c. 636–679) On a black night in the year 672, a woman ran.… Read more.

• The Flesh We Keep and the Flesh We Yield

  On Power Laid Down and Tombs Broken Open — A Reflection for Meatfare Sunday (Sunday of the Last Judgment) on… Read more.