Category Archives: Slightly Pious
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Soap to Sanctity
Leave a commentApril 18, 2019 by lucieromarin
Surely one of the strangest creative innovations of modern times must be the decision to install pieces of plant matter …
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Sitting with Mystery
Leave a commentJanuary 1, 2019 by lucieromarin
People keep posting soundbites about God not being responsible for the evils in the world, and how stupid it is …
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A Dowry for the Wonderworker
Leave a commentDecember 6, 2018 by lucieromarin
If I ever attempt the making of a Catholic set of Oracle cards (!?), the deck will certainly feature St …
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On Turning Forty
Leave a commentJuly 18, 2018 by lucieromarin
Single women raised in conservative communities dread their fortieth birthdays. (I don’t know if the same is true for men; …
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She Gathers the Herbs for Battle
Leave a commentJuly 7, 2018 by lucieromarin
I have arisen from the bronchitis-that-would-not-die to find that we’re just over a month off the Feast of the Assumption. …
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Wounded Witches, Pro-Life Pagans
Leave a commentJune 11, 2018 by lucieromarin
When I turned fifteen, a Catholic adult gave me a book about how to summon demons. It was based on …
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Why I Like Monks
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2018 by lucieromarin
Yesterday, on the Feast of St Benedict, the slackest Benedictine in the world received the latest copy of In Coenaculo …
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St Patrick – Not a Tipsy Leprechaun
Leave a commentMarch 16, 2018 by lucieromarin
The Feast of St Patrick is not for binge-drinking and dancing jigs in silly hats. That’s because it’s not about …
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Roadkill Rhapsody 