Awake at three, and then, away! Ordinations are the most happy occasion for this hermit. This is what it is all about. This is also when great bishops are most happy. Everyone remarks at the great happiness of the Bishop of Charlotte on the day of ordinations. This is when bishops are most fatherly.
Here’s Peter Shaw…
Jason Barone…
Matthew Codd…
All three new priests of Mary’s Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Hah! A rambunctious seminarian of the diocese has this licence plate:
“PONTIFICAL” ! ! ! Today was a most wonderful day, catching up with many priests and seminarians, many of whom were past students of mine at the Pontifical Seminary called the Josephinum, in Columbus, Ohio. The diocese of Charlotte is by far and away the best diocese I’ve ever been in. This is one happy hermit!
Pray, pray, pray for vocations. It is a direct command of our Lord to pray the Master of the Harvest for harvesters! Pray every day. Why not offer one session of the daily Angelus to this end?
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. 
