Alleluia
O magnum mysterium et admirabile sacramentum ut animalia viderent Dominum natum, jacentem in praesepio! Beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare Dominum Christum. Alleluia! O great…
Little Feast of Firstfruits {Ithilien House}
From last year’s notes: On the fifteenth of July I greeted Y in the morning with the words, “It’s Firstfruits Day!” — blithely uttered, as…
A Summer Letter
I’ve just sent out the summer letter to subscribers, friends! You can click here to read it. (And you can subscribe to future missives here.)…
Lanier Ivester {Deep Draughts}
Beauty touches a place where advice can never reach; a story can articulate a hurt and heal it in the same stroke; music stirs an…
Easter Monday
{Written Easter Monday, published Tuesday.} My delight in waking to an Eastertide world feels like a miracle in itself this year. The last benediction…
Easter Sunday
Happy Easter Sunday to you, friends! A bit of illness has changed our plans for this day, but “my heart overflows with a pleasing theme”…
Knitting {Ithilien House}
On a lamplit evening in January, I tie 267 cast-on stitches onto a thin pair of circular knitting needles. Lucy helps, listening to me murmur…