Fr. Cyprian couldn’t help but wonder how things would have been different if Sebastian hadn’t been named after a saint, even if indirectly. Was it all part of a divine purpose or the seed of an idea planted in Sebastian’s head at an early age by his mother in the...
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Walking the Via Dolorosa
In the moments before he died, Mathias Thompson suddenly understood, with a cerulean certainty of the sky being blue on a cloudless summer day, that there was a God. An immense sadness expanded within him, and he recalled the time his mother took him to walk the Via...
Cupid Painted Blind
Reed was named for his maternal grandfather, which was unfortunate for the significance of his mother's married name, Todd, and thereby Reed's last. By the time his mother realized the phonetic articulation of the two together; after pulling Reed's birth certificate...



