Table of Contents

Feature

Feasts of Doubt or Feasts of Faith?:
Dana Gioia’s “All Souls’” and “Pentecost” Joshua Hren

Fiction

The Drought, 1983 Christi Nogle
Trapped Caroline Valencia-Dalisay
The Seconds After Living Wounds Samuel Cole

Poetry

Speculum Amoris Christi Lance Le Grys
Francis before the Seraph Lance Le Grys
A Sonnet Written in Age Jeffrey Essmann
Frau Frey’s Observations Laura M. Fabrycky
Jonah Boards a Ship Loren Moreno
Mary Comes Down Jeannine Pitas
Macondo Jeannine Pitas
Ruah Jeanne Murray Walker
Shoes Jeanne Murray Walker
Philadelphia: Walking to Work on the First Day of Spring Jeanne Murray Walker
Comfort Items Cameron Morse
The Best and Happiest Moments Cameron Morse
The Cave Cameron Morse
Song of Salome Joseph McBirnie
Jacob’s Ladder Timothy Chapman

Nonfiction

Say a Little Prayer Nina Fosati
The Priest as Enchanter Allan Hawkins
On Original Sin and The Picture of Dorian Gray James Valvis

Book Reviews

The Sere, the Yellow Leaf:
Rescuing Macbeth from Harold Bloom review by J.B. Toner
Under Cosmopolitanism and Outside:
A Review of Daniel Rattelle’s The Sleeping House
by Joshua Hren
Dracula and Dominican Vampire Slayers:
A Bloody Habit by Eleanor Bourg Donlon
review by Karen Ullo
The Flame Imperishable by Jonathan S. Macintosh review by Jane Clark Scharl

Visual Art

Bernadette Carstensen is a Catholic illustrator working in traditional mediums. She aspires to show the humanity and also the profound holiness of her subjects. Previously commissioned by the Eastern Province of Dominicans, the Diocese of Columbus, various parishes and authors, she works from her home in California where she lives with her husband and two children.