The stole (a detail above) is from Mother L. in bella Roma. Thank you! She also sent in some other things for Holy Mass:
Very appropriate for the Holy Sacrifice. Here’s another detail of the top of the stole. It’s rare these days to find a cross. There should be a cross. The priest kisses the cross on the stole before placing it around his neck, saying, as you know, this tremedous prayer about the stole of immortality lost by our first parents. Yikes! Thank you, Mother L!
Thanks also go to M.L.S., for the gift to the hermitage, which was placed with some words of encouragement in this wonderful card, which I promptly claim as florae for the Immaculate Conception.
Thanks go to L.F., who sent in this card of Our Lady of Mount Carmel delivering, with the help of the angels, the souls in purgatory. Notice the scapular in the hands of the infant Jesus. You do know that our Lady of Lourdes appeared on 16 July to Saint Bernadette, while the latter was kneeling where the future OCD monastery was to built, don’t you? You do know that our Lady of Fatima appeared as our Lady of Mount Carmel (and our Lady of Sorrows), don’t you?
L.F. also sent in a Mass intention and a gift for Holy Souls Hermitage. Thanks, L.F.!
May the Lord continue to bless you and all benefactors and readers according to the perfect intercession of the Immaculate Conception.
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 stole etc. are beautiful; what great work!
A thing of beauty is a joy forever and so is a good friend ! A combined
quote from Vanessa and John Keats .
Hugs and kisses for those nimble fingers and the passion for
perseverance . I’m a stitcher and I’m impressed .
Thanks Mother L. You donated your needlework to a good
place .
W.O.W!!!! Gorgeous!
I take it tat the “Augustinian Father Prosper Grech” is the now Cardinal Grech? Is he as intellectually brilliant as is reputed? I was interested in the fact that he was assigned Santa Maria Goretti as his diaconia. Scotland’s Cardinal Heard (though a priest of an Sassenach diocese, he WAS a proud Scotsman) was one of the three auditors of the Sacred Roman Rota who were attached ex officio to the Sacred Congregation for Rites, which at the time handled such matters, and acted as a judge in the beatification process of the saint.
Hello Hugh: Well, my observance of his brilliance is rather biased. He’s a rather tough professor. He told everyone to do the oral exam since, in that case, if the student was straying, he would then stare at the floor, meaning that they were going to hell should they not change the answer quickly. If anyone was stupid enough to do a paper instead, he said that the student would get no second chance. If he didn’t like the first paragraph, he would stop reading. I thought that, hey, why don’t I write a paper that would stand on it’s head the historical critical method in all the extreme stupidities forced upon it, mocking those who did this by producing a scientific process compatible with the HCM for a particular passage of the Bible, demonstrating, in this way, the inherent compatibility of the HCM with the best from the Fathers of the Church? So I did. He loved it and gave it full marks.