Lamplight 02: Notes on June and the First Week of July
Two Lamps Companion - Issues 05 through 09 - June and early July 2026
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.
The Drive North
He drove north for two hours and thought about almost nothing, which was new.
The Convent at Bharananganam
Two Lamps, Issue 09: Saint Thomas the Apostle and Saint Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, the small infirmary cell at the Franciscan Clarist convent at Bharananganam, Kerala, India, an evening in
The Mountain at La Verna
Two Lamps, Issue 08: Saint Lawrence of Rome and Saint Francis of Assisi, the hermitage at La Verna in the Tuscan Apennines, an evening in late summer 1226
The Recovery
What follows is drawn from a set of acquisition records and internal correspondence recovered from the archive of the Société des Amis de la Raison, a Parisian learned society founded in 1801 and dissolved in 1847.
The Hours
Vespers was at five-thirty, which gave him two hours in his room before he needed to be anywhere.
The Infirmary in Rome
Two Lamps, Issue 07: Saint Romuald and Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, the infirmary of the Roman College, an afternoon in mid-June 1591
The Keeping of the Hours
What follows is drawn from the administrative records of the Abbey of Inden, near Aachen, covering the years 816 to 823, and from a brief memoir written by a monk named Wulfric of Northumbria sometime between 820 and 830.