Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of Mary, 24th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 Here is the excerpt which I promised in my previous article: Chapter Two: The Paycheck When I was a child living off of my father’s and mother’s provision, I thought that the day when I could produce my own money would […]
Taurus Necrus
Rule of Life
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of Mary, 22nd Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 Disclaimer: The tone of this article is authoritative and instructive. Please forgive me for that, since it is how I have learned to express myself, but understand that I have no authority nor am I a good instructor. Rather, take this […]
Lord of the World and God’s Absence
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of Mary, 1st Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 This morning it is my son’s first birthday, and I have enjoyed the presence of my Lord in prayer without much clarity as how to spend the day for the meritting of Heaven, which is not uncommon. In such days, I […]
Excerpt from Marcus Woodward Rewrite
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Blessed Sacrament, 25th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 This is a rewrite of my first published work. It is a science fiction set in a colony on a distant planet founded by American and one generation removed from having declared independence. The main character is Marcus Woodward, […]
Holy Labor
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Blessed Sacrament, 24th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 As promised, I am now attempting to write an article about the holy work of embroidery, for the sake of my wife, and without her active help. What I was trying to say with my previous articles about slaughter […]
St. Isidore of Madrid
Author: The Reverend Alban Butler Posted: Month of the Blessed Sacrament, 23rd Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 I have only just written the last article posted, although you shall read this the next day, and I am confronted with the great consolation of Butler’s Lives of May 10. Of all books, this is my […]
How to Slaughter and Butcher a Sheep
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of the Blessed Sacrament, 22nd Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 I reject the idea that there is a particular vocation for us by God in order for us to earn our meat and bread, provide for a family, have a family, and fulfill all our duties. A particular vocation […]
A Very Small Glance at the Hidden Life of St. Joseph
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of St. Joseph, 24th Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 Holy Mother Church, full of wisdom, puts the month of St Joseph and the feast of St Joseph in the middle of Lent every year, because as far as I can reckon it, this month is the only one which […]
Why the Irish Are Punished by God
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of St. Joseph, 2nd Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 I recently (that is, on the day of St David when I wrote this, the night prior) had a conversation with another Irishman. This morning, I pray for him and ponder his fate in its representation of the whole Irish […]
Cloud of Witness
Author: Nathaniel Slattery Posted: Month of St. Joseph, 1st Day, Year of Our Lord 2023 I have not decided where to place this in a book, and I might never publish it anywhere else. But it is the fruit of requests to God for visions of Heaven for the sake of a fruitful Lent, to […]