Faith & Life
The Exhausted Middle
On the quiet majority, the parish, and where healing actually starts
Deacon Michael Halbrook
Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined.
Permanent deacon of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Husband, father of four sons, builder of Catholic technology, and writer of essays, fiction, and homilies.
The Library on Sunday
Ambrose was waiting outside the library door when Joshua came down from breakfast.
The Chapel on the Caelian Hill
Two Lamps, Issue 18: Saint Gregory the Great and Saint Augustine of Canterbury, the small chapel at the monastery of Saint Andrew on the Caelian Hill in Rome, early summer 596
October
He drove south on a Friday morning in the first week of October, and the Ozarks were a different country from the Ozarks of July.
The Room in Lima
Two Lamps, Issue 17: Saint Rose of Lima and Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, a small guest room in the house of Don Gonzalo de la Maza, Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru, the small hours before dawn on August 2
The Other Argument
What follows is drawn from a philosophical manuscript found in the archive of the Institut pour l'Etude de l'Ordre Historique, recovered by Allied forces in 1945.
The Second Sentence
He told Mara about the dinner on a Thursday morning, nine days after it happened.
The Room at the Hospital
Two Lamps, Issue 16: Saint Alberto Hurtado and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the Hospital of the Catholic University at Santiago de Chile, an afternoon in the second week of August 1952
