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Saint Michael’s Lent is an Oasis of Atonement in the Liturgically Ordinary Desert
I've had an article published in Crisis Magazine. Please click the link and enjoy!...
Book Review:The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman When buying books for the next school year, there was a Sid Fleischman book on the list that I...
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
"The strategy of our adversary..."
Putting the Hallowed back in Halloween
My Childhood Halloweens As a kid in a non-religious household, I enjoyed all the secular aspects of Halloween. the art projects at school my...
Happy Feasts of Saint Jude and Saint Simon!
Saint Jude was one of the 12 apostles and became a very powerful intercessor so anxious was he to prove he wasn’t THAT Judas. The flame represents...
From The Habit of Being
"...everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny..."
I Am an Extrovert When I Am Running
I always run from social situations and so I found it odd that I am so...
From Charles Dickens
"No pleasures like the pleasures of the poor."
Saint Isaac and the Indians
by Milton Lomask This book was about one of the North American martyrs Saint Isaac Jogues. He was a Jesuit that journeyed from France to Quebec in...
From The Catholic Church and Conversion
...they feel a tug towards it.
Emma
by Jane Austen While trying to decide what to read next, I came across the trivia tidbit that the movie Clueless was based on Jane Austen's Emma....
From Charles Dickens
... makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary.