Food is a Miracle: A Corpus Christi Meditation
Those who don’t understand why Christ came in the form of food, have never been poor. My little town here in the Ohio Valley has a unique, insular culture. I don’t think there’s another place like it...
View ArticleDesert Stones
It was my lover at the door. I heard his voice so low I could not make out words, but I knew that it was he. I saw his hand at the latch dripping myrrh. When I opened for him, he was gone. I went out...
View ArticleDabbling Ducks
There are too many ugly things in the world right now. We shouldn’t ignore them, but we mustn’t ignore the beautiful either. Let’s take a moment to think about something truly beautiful and innocent....
View ArticleLent Without Bread
Some nights I make meatloaf, and serve it with mashed potatoes. Last night I was too exhausted to stand up long enough to make meat loaf. I threw all the meat loaf ingredients, minus bread crumbs, into...
View ArticleWhere’s the Borscht?
I grew up associating Lent with fish sticks and bland, canned-soup casserole on Fridays. My daughter will grow up thinking it has to do with bread and borscht on Wednesdays, and sick bats. My little...
View ArticleExpecto Bock-Peck?
It was going to be my first Pascha in the Byzantine Catholic church. I wanted to get everything right. This was impossible, of course. I had not been physically well enough to fast for all of Great...
View ArticleMr. Rogers and the Terrible Chef
My daughter is on a Mr. Rogers-watching kick again, thanks be to God. We have an Amazon Prime membership, which means we can stream nearly every episode of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood made after 1979 for...
View ArticleThe Mirror and the Font
I took Rose on an expedition to the thrift shop, to look for fifty cent toys. They were a bribe for being good while I waited in line to drop off yet another form at Job and Family Services, and she...
View ArticleMeet the Advent-o-Saurs!
I don’t know exactly whose idea it was to come up with an Adventosaurus. My friend just got on Facebook and asked that somebody draw a picture of the Adventosaurus to be an Advent mascot, as if this...
View ArticleCan’t Afford No Golden Eggs
There is no water in downtown Steubenville, and there’s an ice storm rolling in. This morning, people just a mile away from me awoke to nothing at all coming out of the pipes. The reservoirs are being...
View ArticleHow the Shutdown Could Hurt the Hungry– and How You Can Help
A friend just posted the following on facebook: “So, WIC funding is down to state and local resources; SNAP is funded through the end of January. Should the shutdown continue, keep in mind that folks...
View ArticleWhat is a Sodomite, Anyway?
Last night I got into an argument with someone who kept talking about “Sodomites.” He crashed a thread that wasn’t to do with sodomy at all; it was about Donald Trump Junior, college professors or...
View ArticleMedieval Peasants had it Made: In Dialogue with a Twitter Traditionalist
Last night on Twitter, I had an interesting insight into what your standard Catholic and Orthodox traditionalist wants out of life. A gentleman called “Man with a Purpose” wrote: “Medieval Peasants: 1....
View ArticleRosie Learns a Bible Verse
We hadn’t had a Catechism lesson in awhile. Homeschooling is rather disorganized in the Pezzulo household. We have a series of unit studies on ancient history and biology going on bit by bit, and for...
View ArticleRod Dreher, Saint Benedict, and the Case of the Ignorant Secretary
People are still up in arms about Chick-fil-A. Conservative Christian commentators are furious. Rod Dreher may or may not have come to the end of his tantrum, but it lasted for over a day and something...
View ArticleTo All Who Grow And Bake And Sew
This weekend, we all got mad at somebody called Caren White, who wrote an article for Medium demanding that everybody stop baking homemade bread during the pandemic. In case you missed it, Caren’s...
View ArticleThe Children At the Unity Kitchen
I used to volunteer at the Unity Kitchen. I still don’t know if the Unity Kitchen was the official name of the soup kitchen in the basement of a church downtown, or if that was just Pastor Tony’s...
View ArticleWho Comes to Me Will Never Hunger
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John: When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there,they themselves got into boatsand came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. And when...
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