Author: em6298

• The Altar You Build Where the Cross Already Stands

  Heart-Leaving and Heart-Finding — A Reflection for Fourth Week of Great Lent (Week of the Cross) on Isaiah 29:13-23 and… Read more.

• The Physician Who Healed Without a Price

  The Life of Saint Sampson the Hospitable (c. 480–530) The old man knelt in the mud beside a leper whom… Read more.

• The Short Bed and the Scattered Tongue

  Where Every Refuge Fails but the One that Holds — A Reflection for Fourth Week of Great Lent (Week of… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Fought a Dragon with Words

  The Life of Saint Niketas the Confessor, Bishop of Chalcedon (circa 760–838) The soldiers came for Niketas on a spring… Read more.

• The Vineyard, the Nakedness, and the Sword

  Covering What Must Be Slain — A Reflection for Fourth Week of Great Lent (Week of the Cross) on Isaiah… Read more.

• The Physician Who Healed Without a Price

  The Life of Saints Cosmas and Damian, the Holy Unmercenaries (Third Century) Somewhere in the province of Asia Minor—where the… Read more.

• The Bow Bent Toward the Feast

  Death Swallowed, Tears Wiped, Flesh Covenanted — A Reflection for Fourth Week of Great Lent (Week of the Cross) on… Read more.

• The Philosopher Who Fought with Questions

  The Life of Saint Justin Martyr (c. 100–165 AD) In the city of Flavia Neapolis—built on the bones of ancient… Read more.

• The Sweet Savour of a Broken World

  Carrying What Cannot Be Escaped — A Reflection for Fourth Week of Great Lent (Week of the Cross) on Isaiah… Read more.

• The Bishop Who Outfoxed an Empire

  The Life of Saint Athanasius the Great (296–373 AD) Five times they drove him out. Five times he came back.… Read more.