What no one ever says about Lent

The penitential season of Lent is upon us, and no doubt, most are considering how best to orient ourselves away from the distractions and delights of…

Feb 17 • Gaetano Carcarello

January 2026

A new year, a new name: Nazareth Anew

What's behind the new title?

Jan 19 • Gaetano Carcarello

December 2025

In praise of less bedrooms and more sanctuaries

Your kids don't need their own room, they need creative spaces

Dec 27, 2025 • Gaetano Carcarello

How will the Lord find you?

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘As it was in Noah’s day, so will it be when the Son of Man comes.

Dec 2, 2025 • Gaetano Carcarello

November 2025

On abandoning process, briefly. Perhaps permanently.

I picture myself fashioning a calamitous, ramshackle setup with a motley collection of pots and skillets, distantly reminiscent of the ‘Saucepan Man…

Nov 9, 2025 • Gaetano Carcarello

May 2025

Shaping word, and phrase, and memory and song

Don't let the creative impulse die

May 7, 2025 • Gaetano Carcarello

March 2025

Lent: A Season of Authenticity

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

Mar 19, 2025 • Gaetano Carcarello

September 2024

Courage at the Crossroads

When creative endeavours are stifled by the vagaries of emotion

Sep 11, 2024 • Gaetano Carcarello

Lamenting the Tumult and the Noise

Encountering a metropolis

Sep 5, 2024 • Gaetano Carcarello

May 2024

A New Home and a New Start on Substack

or Prolificacy vs Prolificity

May 14, 2024 • Gaetano Carcarello

October 2023

Notes from an Exile (aka Here in the Narthex)

So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Oct 26, 2023

June 2023

Efficacious Means to Kill the Creative Spirit

Upon the careful consideration, design and implementation of the following means to kill the creative spirit, I’ve decided to share my most effective…

Jun 18, 2023