Deacon Michael Halbrook
Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined.
Permanent deacon of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Husband, father of four sons, builder of Catholic technology, and writer of essays, fiction, and homilies.
October
He drove south on a Friday morning in the first week of October, and the Ozarks were a different country from the Ozarks of July.
The Room in Lima
Two Lamps, Issue 17: Saint Rose of Lima and Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, a small guest room in the house of Don Gonzalo de la Maza, Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru, the small hours before dawn on August 2
The Other Argument
What follows is drawn from a philosophical manuscript found in the archive of the Institut pour l'Etude de l'Ordre Historique, recovered by Allied forces in 1945.
The Second Sentence
He told Mara about the dinner on a Thursday morning, nine days after it happened.
The Room at the Hospital
Two Lamps, Issue 16: Saint Alberto Hurtado and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the Hospital of the Catholic University at Santiago de Chile, an afternoon in the second week of August 1952
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Reflections
What the Wait Actually Buys You
Two expected payoffs don't materialize when you wait to ship something whole. Three quieter ones actually do. On what the wait actually buys you.
The Commission
What follows is drawn from a single document in the Alton library, catalogued by Teodor Maren as: commission document, Latin, 1291, notation confirmed, provenance: received with the formal instrument.
Dinner
Aldric had chosen the restaurant, which told Joshua something, though he was not yet sure what.
The Cell at Auschwitz
Two Lamps, Issue 15: Saint Maximilian Kolbe and Saint Maximilian the Martyr, cell 18 of block 11 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the night of August 13 into August 14, 1941