Tag: priests

• Two Churches in Porto

  I’m in Porto, Portugal. It’s not Florida and it’s not northern Dorset, and I’m not shoveling 4′ of snow in the Adirondacks. But there is an interesting church across the square facing our apartment. Actually it’s two churches. On the right is the Igerja do Carmo, used by the monks of the Carmo. On the…

  patrickjegan

  January 6, 2020

  Uncategorized

  Churches, nuns, Porto, Portugal, priests

• The Confessional: A Short Story

  An elaborate carved oak confessional sat in a corner of a large and beautiful church. It was the Church of Our Lady of the World in Montreal, the center of Catholic French Canada. There were several confessionals in this cavernous house of worship.  The congregation, holding onto the older ways of the Roman Church, still…

  patrickjegan

  March 24, 2014

  Alternate Endings, North Country Life, Real and Unreal Adventures, Short Fiction

  churches in Montreal, confessionals, confessions, listening devices, love, Montreal, pretty woman in church, priests, rue saint Catherine, short fiction, sinners, Vermont border, would-be stalkers