saints
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San Sebastiano
When I was planning my trip to Rome, I briefly considered stopping by the home of my ancestors, Villa San Sebastiano. It was only an hour and a half away. I researched the public transportation options, but the plan was soon thwarted. No trains stopped there, and I certainly couldn’t rent a car with my… Continue reading
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My Confirmation Namesake
I’d been searching for a book on St. Edith Stein for some months. I’d claimed her name as my own in Confirmation, but knew merely the basics of her story—she was a feminist during WWII, a Jewish convert who perished in Auschwitz. With “basics” like that, I was eager to know more. On the first… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6