Advent in May: Rediscovering Galilee
“The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.” This first sentence from today’s Gospel on the Feast of the Ascension serves as a bookend to the Easter pilgrimage we began seven weeks ago. The Gospel for the Easter Vigil recounts the first words of the Resurrected Christ: “Do…
The Writer’s Vocation
Dear reader! Happy…new year? Spring? Summer break? Needless to say, it’s been a while. I don’t usually feel butterflies when hitting the “Write” button on this blog. But it’s been a long time since I even had the desire to hit that button. I just got back to Indianapolis after spending a semester in Rome…
2022 in Literary Review
Merry Christmas, dear reader. Before today’s post, please join me in praying for the repose of the soul of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. In the Office of Readings for Christmas day, Pope St. Leo the Great exhorts, “Sadness should have no place on the birthday of life.” Let’s rejoice in the gift that Benedict is…
Odd Mercy’s Manger
“…my disbelief made no difference to You. You took it into Your love and accepted it like an offering, and tonight the rain soaked through my coat and my clothes and into my skin, and I shivered with the cold, and it was for the first time as though I nearly loved You. I walked…
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My name is Larisa and I’m a Catholic, artist, lamppost enthusiast, and passionate advocate for the Oxford comma. Odds are that as you read this, I’m drinking coffee -regardless of the time. If I’m not studying or writing with said coffee, I’m probably reading, laughing way too loudly, or quoting St. Therese and The Office with equal gusto.
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