2023 in Literary Review
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’s Eve! 2023 was a wild year, with some of the best and worst moments of my life wrapped into 365 days. It’s led to a change in the way I see writing and evangelization, and that’s still a change I’m working through and discerning. But one of the major…
After the Angel
“Then the angel departed from her.” God’s descent to earth and Mary’s vocation as the God-bearer are announced and brought to completion in a conversation that probably took less time than a decade of the Rosary. As soon as Mary speaks her Fiat, the angel departs. There is no more need for words, for the…
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…
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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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