
When I was kid (some might say I still am), I used to feed chipmunks by hand. Don’t try that at home. They bite! This fellow, however, is very placid indeed. In the original English usage, chipmunk was chipMONK.
Monks, huh? Monks are not hermits. No monks on Holy Souls Mountain. Just one hermit. ChipMUNK is just fine as a spelling!


Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 





