After eighteen years at Adobe (with a brief interlude at Exodus), I'm moving on.

I still have a few more weeks in the background at Adobe, but my last "real" day was last week, in the midst of the Triduum. I had taken Thursday and Friday off, which means my final days at Adobe tapered directly into the Triduum - the three most sacred days of the liturgical year.

I don't think that timing was an accident.

For the past few years, I've been praying for clarity about the second half of life. My bishop, when I talked with him about it, emphasized something important: clarity first, then courage. Don't try to be brave about something you can't yet see clearly. Get clear first. The courage will follow.

That clarity came - slowly, then all at once.

It came in Adoration, where I heard something I've written about before: "You've never been the one who provides. I provide."

It came in conversations with my spiritual director, who helped me see that the various projects I'd been building on the side weren't scattered - they were connected. They just needed a hub.

It came at Disneyland, of all places, where Walt Disney's flywheel model gave me the framework I needed: properties that feed each other, a center that holds them together, a mission that makes sense of all the parts.

And it came in the Triduum itself - in the pattern of loss, waiting, and resurrection that I wrote about yesterday. The ending of one thing making room for the emergence of another.

So what am I building?

Domus Formation is a formation house serving the domestic church across generations.

The Latin word domus means house - and the domestic church is the household, the family, the first school of faith. My conviction, shaped by years of parish ministry and diaconal service, is that the renewal of the Church begins in the home. Not in programs. Not in conferences. In the daily rhythm of families praying together, rooted in the same readings the Church prays at Mass.

That's what Domus exists to support.

Here's what it looks like in practice:

Hearth & Altar (hearthandaltar.com) is daily Catholic formation for families with children at home. One reading. Five minutes. Every day. Tied to the Mass readings, delivered by email or app, designed for the chaos of real family life.

Eventide & Altar (eventideandaltar.com) is the same format for adults in the second half of life - empty nesters, grandparents, anyone navigating the quieter season after the kids have launched.

Iron & Altar and Vessel & Altar are daily reflections for Catholic men and women, each with weekly small group guides. No curriculum to buy. No prep required. Just show up and discuss.

Young Disciples Society serves teens. Ostium Catholic serves young adults. Fons Catholic serves OCIA candidates and catechumens.

All of these properties share the same rhythm and the same source - the daily Mass readings - but each speaks in a voice tailored to its audience.

And they all live together in the & Altar app - one app, one household subscription, personalized paths for every member of the family. Dad gets Hearth & Altar and Iron & Altar. Mom gets Hearth & Altar and Vessel & Altar. The teenager gets Young Disciples Society. Grandma gets Eventide & Altar. Everyone shares the family reflection. One subscription covers all of it.

The app is live now on Android. We're still working through Apple's approval process for iOS - pray for us - but it's coming.

There's more.

Lux Perpetua (luxperpetua.net) launched on Easter Sunday. It's a serial novel called Ordo: A Chronicle of Lux Perpetua - a story about custody, memory, and the ordering of the world under God. Two narrative tracks publish each week: The Living Thread (Mondays) follows a present-day historian who inherits something he doesn't understand. The Lost Crown (Thursdays) reveals the deep history of what he's inherited. Read together, they tell one story across seven centuries.

The tagline is: The light that was never put out.

This is the writer in me - the part that was named "Diligent Writer" at an Order of the Arrow Vigil in 1994 and has been waiting twenty years to fully emerge. Lux Perpetua is where that finally lives.

Ad Alta Leadership (adaltaleadership.com) is for professionals navigating significant transitions - career changes, post-corporate life, retirement, or the restlessness that comes when the next chapter isn't yet clear.

Ad Alta is not a career coaching program. It's an identity program. The question isn't "What should I do next?" but "Who am I becoming?"

The format is an 8-week cohort with a small group of peers, weekly sessions, and a pacer partner for accountability between meetings. There's an optional faith-based track for those who want it, but the core program is for anyone in transition - not just Catholics.

The tagline is: Clarity before the climb. The patron (for those who care about such things) is Pier Giorgio Frassati.

And of course, Deacon Life (deaconlife.com) continues - daily content and community for permanent deacons. This was one of the earliest pieces of what became Domus, and it remains close to my heart.

I know this is a lot. Here's how I'd summarize it:

Domus Formation is the house. The various properties are rooms in the house - each designed for a different member of the family, a different stage of life, a different need. And everything is connected by the same foundation: the liturgical calendar, the daily Mass readings, the rhythm of the Church's prayer.

If your household prayed together five minutes a day, rooted in the same readings the Church prays at Mass, what would change?

That's the question Domus exists to answer.

So here's my ask.

If you're a family with kids at home, check out Hearth & Altar. If you're in the second half of life, check out Eventide & Altar. If you want everything in one place, download the & Altar app (Android now, iOS soon).

If you're a reader - if you love story, if you're drawn to the deep questions about order and meaning and what's been lost - subscribe to Lux Perpetua. The first chapters are live now.

If you're in transition - professionally, vocationally, personally - and you want formation for the climb ahead, reach out about Ad Alta.

And whoever you are: think of two or three people who might resonate with any of this, and share it with them. That's how this grows - not through marketing, but through invitation. One household at a time. One reader at a time. One person in transition at a time.

I'm not afraid.

That's what surprises me most about this moment. Eighteen years is a long time. Adobe was good to me - good work, good people, good provision for my family. Leaving is a real loss, and I don't want to pretend otherwise.

But the Triduum teaches us that loss is not the end of the story. The tomb is not the final word. What looks like an ending is often the necessary emptying that makes room for resurrection.

"You've never been the one who provides. I provide."

I believe that. And I'm stepping into it.

He is risen. And so, in ways I'm still discovering, are we.

If this resonated with you, I'd be honored if you shared it with someone who might need to hear it.

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