Abraham's Journey
(At Mass tonight, children performed the Christmas Story from the Gospel of Luke, Unexpectedly, it seriously choked me up. When I was a kid, Mom and Dad would wake us up around midnight, then we would sit on the floor around the tree and Dad would read the Christmas story from Luke. Then Mom would […]
Read More Joseph’s Way (2022)(On this Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception, I repeat this story I wrote on my pilgrimage. Reading it again, I cried. It takes a few years before you can read a story you wrote from the perspective of actual reader rather than some weird sort of technician. My friends, God has a plan – […]
Read More The Pivot of CivilizationEcce Homo – Antonio Ciseri (I repeat today what has become an Easter Tradition for me – my little story about Pontius Pilate and the Lord. Some, over the years, have commented on how real the death scene feels. I took it almost verbatim from an actual event I participated in. What follows is […]
Read More EpitaphPosted on November 2, 2015 by charliej373 (I wrote this little story way back in 1996. I love to post it at Christmas. I hope you enjoy it. – CJ) By Charlie Johnston The true son of true God was adopted by a man, that all men might truly be adopted by God. Taking […]
Read More Joseph’s Way(I repeat today what has become an Easter Tradition for me – my little story about Pontius Pilate and the Lord. Some, over the years, have commented on how real the death scene feels. I took it almost verbatim from an actual event I participated in. What follows is fiction. I used the literary […]
Read More EpitaphEcce Homo – Antonio Ciseri I repeat today my little story from the original Holy Week What follows is fiction. I used the literary device of an archaeological find, but it is fiction entirely from my meditation on the Crowning of Thorns. This is NOT definitely what happened with Pilate, but merely my meditation on […]
Read More Good Friday – Epitaph Revisited(I am nearing the end of my western tour of the U.S. There is a host of work to be done when I get home – both in significant projects and with this site. I think we have crossed the border into deadly territory, both spiritually and temporally. In global affairs, Church controversies, political scrums […]
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A Sign of Hope 