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Mary, Queen of Angels 2020

Purchase Featuring nonfiction from Joshua Hren, fiction from Jennifer Marie Donahue and Rob Davidson and the winners and honorees of the Bakhita Prize in Visual Arts.

Local Habitations and Tutelary Spirits

“The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.” This is the first command God gives to early humanity, to till and keep the garden of the earth, to care, in short, for creation. This is a command which has never been rescinded. But how ought we to care for … [Read More...]

Part II: Friday Links, February 19, 2021

Catching up with timely things not to be missed: poetry reading with first place winner moi; 2/23—Walking with Christ During Lent; 2/26—Stanford event honoring William Kennedy, the author of “Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game”; Katy Carl publishes a story for the first time outside the Catholic bubble; … [Read More...]

Part I: Friday Links, February 19, 2021

Lenten reading recommendations; Archy & Mehitable and free verse; lectionary poetry; Ryan Wilson's "Xenia"; languages alter time. LENTEN READING SUGGESTIONS FOR 2021 FROM THE WORD ON FIRE INSTITUTE Katy Carl, Dappled Things Editor-in-Chief recommends this post by Elizabeth Scalia, Editor at … [Read More...]

A faith illuminated from the outside

In grade school physical education classes, my classmates and I found it thrilling to play with a huge multi-colored parachute. We’d ripple it so that dodgeballs bounced high in the air; we’d create a moving wave by taking turns raising our small part of the fabric. But the most whimsical moments … [Read More...]

Friday Links, February 12, 2021

Remarkable painting discoveries from a nun and a sainted religious brother, a book about African American saints in the making, the self-chosen  martyrdom  of  Father Velasco in  Endo's The  Samurai . . .. Meet Orsola Maddalena Caccia, the Remarkable Painting Nun Whose Work Just Entered the Met’s … [Read More...]

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Sleeping with St. Joseph

Mike Bonifas

Yesinia waves from the classroom window. She is six years old and smiling and she presses her forehead to the pane. Jorge, her brother, makes his mouth a swirling glob of flesh and spit beneath the glass. They draw back and laugh. Abel rests the weed-whacker on his hip and touches his palm to the pane. First Jorge, then Yesinia, spread their fingers against his. They giggle and Abel smiles and the children run off and Abel gets back to work. Ten years ago, he and his mother exchanged the same gesture at Hall County Jail. The glass was thick, the light harsh. Soon after that cold farewell, she left Quanah to work poultry barns in North Carolina. [Read More…]

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