Great griefs are like great joys: they bend time. My sister died twenty years ago. Sometimes it seems so long ago that mercifully, I can barely remember the details. Other times, those details rush back at me so sharply I have to steel myself for impact. Suicide does that. I can smile now at theContinue reading “Grief and Gratitude on Good Friday”
Category Archives: Faith
Good Works, While There’s Time
International Women’s Day is upon us again. I see the hashtag du jour is #ADayWithoutWomen, referring to a gender-based strike to show the world what happens when women bow out of work for a day. They don’t get paid, for one thing. Those of us who don’t work on salary already knew that. To eachContinue reading “Good Works, While There’s Time”
Waugh on Campion
Today is the feast of St. Edmund Campion, Jesuit priest and English Elizabethan martyr. His story was told in 1935 by Evelyn Waugh, better known for his fiction, chief of which in my estimation is Brideshead Revisited. Waugh wrote in the Preface to Saint Edmund Campion that he was not attempting a scholar’s approach to his subject.Continue reading “Waugh on Campion”
Ellen Kolb 