Holy Thursday Foot Fetish
I never understood the washing of the feet. For newcomers, an explanation: each Holy Thursday at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, there is a…
The Order of the Day
I’d been cleaning for weeks. It started the week before Thanksgiving; I had nine coming for Thanksgiving dinner and was damned if I didn’t have…
Hearts and Bones
The turning point was not being able to find a pew without a direct view of the dead saint’s remains in that crystal coffin under…
A Century’s Bravest Believers
Martyrs: Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith Edited by Susan Bergman, HarperSanFrancisco (1998), 333 pages. Bad martyr vibes It used to be that when…
