Tagged: Jim Auer

The Easter Vigil: Liturgical Nectar

The night-blooming cereus flower is famous for its stunning, ethereal, starlike blossom. It blooms at night, once a year. If you’ve never seen one bloom, you’re missing a rare experience. The Easter Vigil is like that. It blooms once a year, on the evening of Holy Saturday. As liturgy goes,...

Best Short Story: Third Place

The Sunshine Kids By Jim Auer Editors Note: Each year, the Catholic Press Association puts out a call for entries of books, newspapers, magazines, and other publications to its Catholic Press Awards program. “The Sunshine Kids” won third place for Best Short Story! The awards honor the accomplishments of Catholic journalists and publishers...

How To Be Stunningly Beautiful

Written by Jim Auer Published April 1998  A certain national magazine publishes an issue each year featuring “the fifty most beautiful people” in the country. Did you know that there are at least two hundred thirteen varieties of products to make your face beautiful? And that doesn’t include makeup! Click...