The First Thursday After
Mara's reply arrived on a Tuesday, which gave him two days to sit with it before Thursday.
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.
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Faith & Life
Homilies & Reflections
Building Something
Ad Alta
Another Voice
Missio Dei
Two Lamps
Lux Perpetua
The Drive North
He drove north for two hours and thought about almost nothing, which was new.
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 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.
The Drive South
He left Alton at seven on a Friday morning in the first week of July, which gave him three hours for a drive that should have taken two.
The Reasonable Age
What follows is drawn from the working journal of Father Sébastien Renard, SJ, kept between 1748 and 1771, recovered from the library of the Jesuit college at Clermont-Ferrand after the suppression of the Society in France in 1764.
The Invitation
The invitation arrived at the end of the meeting, in the way that things arrived from Ambrose - not announced, not prepared for, simply present when the moment was right.
The Dissolution, 1540
What follows is reconstructed from three sources: a letter from Prior Edmund Holt of Rievaulx to an unknown recipient, dated October 1539; a probate inventory from the estate of Richard Askham, wool merchant of York, dated 1571; and a brief entry in the household accounts of the Askham family covering the years 1540 to 1544.