I recently learned about Saint Genevieve’s life, and I haven’t quite stopped thinking about her since. For decades, she only ate twice each week. I’ve been struck by her extraordinary faithfulness. My patron, St. Macrina, embraced a similarly remarkable level of asceticism, and I’ve found myself marveling at the profound freedom these women possessed. They…
A Framework for Seeing Creation as Curriculum
“Let us who mystically represent the Cherubim, and who sing the thrice-holy hymn to the life-creating Trinity, now lay aside all earthly cares.” (The Cherubic Hymn, from the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom)1 But laying aside all earthly cares has never come easily to me. Dread I haven’t always loved autumn the way I do…
The Nativity Fast is upon us. When it comes to food, ascetical simplicity becomes the rhythm of the home. And let’s be honest: eating more simply is a challenge.

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