Advent 2008

Advent 2008

Publisher’s Note

Feature

Nearer My Dogs to Thee John Zmirak

Fiction

The Convert Katy Carl

The Meadow David Dahlke

The Strawberry Effect Lauren Schott

Essays

If Life Could Write: Mystery and Reality in War and Peace Bernardo Aparicio Garcia

Drama

Agnes Grace Andreacchi

Poetry

Steam Gabriel Olearnik

Tumult Gabriel Olearnik

108 degrees Gabriel Olearnik

St. Catherine’s Wheel Michael Schorsch

Absent Friends Fiorella de Maria

Patina William Daugherty

Sacred Heart of St. Joseph Jonathan McDonald

White Christmas Joseph O’Brien

Four Calling Birds Joseph O’Brien

An Afterglow Candidate R.S. Mitchell

The Creek R.S. Mitchell

Christus Natus Est Rose Polchowne

The White Stone J.B. Toner

Footnote to the 22nd Psalm Jason Baguia

Embers Michael Miller

Bereite Dich, Zion Grace Anreacchi

To the Christ-child in the Flight to Egypt Jason Baguia

Ascension Adam Cooper

Living with Killers Vic Cavalli

Concerning Violets Michael Schorsch

Reviews

Exiles Meredith Wise

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life Meredith Wise

Art and Photography

Agnes Matthew Alderman

Until We Have Faces I Patrick Anderson

Until We Have Faces II Patrick Anderson

Tomb of the Black Knight Patrick Anderson

Bere Island Patrick Anderson