Author: D. A. Hosek
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Today’s Saint Picture: Saint Bernardino Realino
I decided to go with Saint Bernardino Realino for today’s saint since (a) I’m partial to the Jesuits and (2) he turned from a career as a lawyer to caring for the poor which seems pretty cool.
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Today’s Saint Picture: Blessed Antonio Rosmini
Antonio Rosmini is a bit of an interesting figure—his writing was initially put on the index of prohibited books and yet he ultimately was not only removed from the index (although there was and is dispute over whether his removal meant that his writing was ok, or just not heretical enough to be on the…
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Today‘s saint picture: Saint Mary, mother of John Mark
Nearly every named woman in the new testament, it seems, was named Mary and today’s saint is one of the more obscure of these, Mary the mother of John Mark (generally associated with the Mark who wrote the Gospel of) who gets a single mention in Acts, subtle enough that most people wouldn’t remember her…
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Writerly resolutions: June status
I’ve always believed that good news never comes in self-addressed stamped envelopes. This month, I discovered this was not necessarily true as an SASE I picked up from my P.O. Box turned out to have not only an acceptance inside, but a check as well. I have a poem coming out later this year. Progress…
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Catholic nerd pilgrimage: Saint Paul
Today being the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, I had a variety of options for where to go, but I opted for Saint Paul’s church in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. I just checked the website to make sure that I wasn’t mistaken, and there was nothing there to indicate what I discovered when…
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Today’s saint picture: Saint Heimerad
Looking over the options for saints for today (and discovering too late that it’s the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), I stumbled upon Saint Heimerad who, despite his weird name has a kind of cool story, most notably with his nickname, “Fool for Christ.” He apparently had difficulty with living in community, was…
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A visit with my younger self: 13 July 1988
At this point, I was past the halfway point of summer and looking at my failure to accomplish the goals I’d set out for myself for the summer. I really need to induce more discipline in my life. I know [sic] have six weeks to learn 15 weeks of Algebra. First chapter of BusSongs. Young…
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Catholic nerd pilgrimage: Sacred Heart
The feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus takes place on the Friday after the feast of the Holy Trinity which makes it one of those movable feasts in the Catholic liturgical calendar (most of these are based on the date of Easter, with the only exceptions I’m aware of being Christ the King and…
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Today’s saint picture: Saint David the Dendrite
Early saints often ended up with rather—eccentric—biographies. The holiness of these figures drew people to them when they just wanted some alone time and in the case of Saint David the Dendrite, his solution to his was to climb an almond tree and live there for three years, thus his title (dendrite coming from the…