Though it’s late in the afternoon, we couldn’t let this day pass by without commemorating the feast of St. Augustine of Hippo. He’s also known as St. Austin. The Golden Legend gives an exposition of both forms of the name, with a wonderful and absolute disregard for mere etymology (which gets entirely too much play in modern exposition, if my eye is any good).

St. August is an emblem of hope for sinners everywhere, a brilliant guide to the Faith, and, of course, patron of brewers. This is as good an excuse as any to patronize a pub on a Tuesday night, and a better excuse than most. And there’s no reason why the saint who said “he who sings prays twice” shouldn’t be serenaded with a good drinking song or two.

(And sorry for the prolonged silence. Yours truly has been relocating, and time has been scarce. I promise more updates very soon!)

If this were a choose-your-own-adventure, your possible responses to coming upon the newly redesigned St. Austin Review site would be:

A) “Where am I?”
B) “Well, it’s about time!”
C) “Wait just a minute. This isn’t the boxes-in-boxes layout I remember. Foul play?”

Of course, if this were a choose-your-own-adventure, you’d have already gone down a wrong hallway about four choices ago, whereupon you were doomed to read page 42, in which the aliens get away after all and your only hope is that the moondust that surrounds you tastes better than it looks.

Fortunately for you, this is just a Wednesday, not a hokey (if fun) mid-70s book novelty. And what you see here is the wonderful work of Ted Schluenderfritz (as is the nifty new logo we unveiled a while ago). We hope you find the current design easier to navigate as well as easier on the eyes.

The archives and other pages will start showing up over the next several days as we migrate from the old servers. Thanks in advance for your patience.

(The mysterious voice stops narrating. Ahead you see several links. . . )