Bennett Bauer is seventeen years old and the author of Morning Star, a ‘Thoroughly Catholic Adventure on the High Seas.’ He and his family homestead on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, surrounded by tidal marshes, oyster reefs, and the sea. He enjoys beach combing for ship wreckage with his nine siblings on the Virginia Barrier Islands, taking care of their animals and extensive orchard, serving the Traditional Latin Mass, and writing.
Author: Bennett Bauer

Candlemas: Feast of Obedience
Candlemas, as it’s called, is a twofold feast of the Presentation of Our Lord and the Purification of Our Lady, and it marks the end of the forty days of the Christmas season. It is primarily a Marian feast commemorating …