I put up the two stained glass angels today. They were originally in the monastery of the Poor Clares up in Portsmouth, Ohio. When they left, the angels were still there. Providential, no? God bless you, my good nuns! A Hail Mary for them, please… Hail Mary… The angels then went, of course, to none other than the great Father K.L., of Holy Family parish in Columbus, Ohio. They would have gone into the famed Jubilee Museum (the museum of Catholic identity in America and around the world). He very graciously donated them to Holy Souls Hermitage. God bless you Father! Three hail Marys for him, please… Hail Mary… Here’s Father K.L. with Father Mitch Pacwa on EWTN:
He speaks of the 1563 Vulgate, which I want, and told him so, but he still has it…
Anyway, one of the seminarians of the Diocese of Columbus up in the Josephinum was trying to work it that I would be a hermit in the abandoned Poor Clares Monastery. Such did not work out, but the angels came with me to the mountains here. As it happens, this is the same diocese, that of Charlotte, N.C., U.S.A., to which the nuns came!
They’ve revamped their web-site recently, and have a number of items available for your good donations. Some have coffee, some have soap. These nuns have habits! That is, T-Shirts! Also, good Fathers, altar breads. Visit them. You’ll be glad you did! They pray for me quite a bit. Please say a Hail Mary for them… Hail Mary… Did I mention they’re getting quite a few vocations? Very awesome.
I’ll have to do something about getting a veil on the tabernacle…
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. 
The alter is absolutely beautiful! What a wonderful scene every day to behold. Wow!
Yes, it all looks so beautiful!
The stained glass Angels make me remember this story. A group of children were attending Sunday School on All Saints Day, when the priest asked them to define a Saint. One youngster , thinking of the beautiful stained glass windows in her parish church said, “A Saint is a person whom the light shines through.” Yeah, not bad for a Child! May the light of God shine through you Fr. George David, for all the time you will be in that beautiful chapel.