Sit and Stay Awhile

On Seeking Silence One of the most comforting aspects of a church is its silence. A holy, inviolate silence that is overwhelming: when one steps

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lily, easter, resurrection

The Insignificant Things

On the Prayer of the Little Tasks There are fresh flowers in the vases that dot the apartment. Picked from the various curbsides and grassy

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The Gateway of the Soul

On How the Physical Unites us to the Spiritual Christian artwork, whether Protestant or Catholic, becomes “a gateway” into Faith: take, for example, Ciseri’s Ecce

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The Beauty in the Fast

On Lent’s Invitation to Silence and Fasting The choir hums, but does not burst in glorious refrain. The music is subdued, the organ absent. The

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patience

The Forgotten Holy Day

On How We have Replaced a Leisure-Culture with a Work-Culture Planning which day I’ll have enough time to finally make sourdough bread is quite the

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