One of my gracious neighbors down the road of Holy Souls Mountain heard on the news this morning that it’s National Hermits Day.
I was called down the mountain to get a gift — against all my protestations — that tastes good while not necessarily being too good for you, which is fine with me.
All just in time before being possibly snowed or iced in — as promised by NOAA — something which is — you have to understand — welcomed by hermits.
Mark your calendars for next year. National Hermits Day falls on 29 October.
Let’s celebrate by saying a prayer for the Holy Souls (who really, really, really appreciate this) … Hail Mary…
Also, thanks go to C.W. for some Bold Hermit blend from the Mystic Monk crowd. Thank you!
Update 8:45 PM: O.K. So… The first snow flakes of the season are falling outside. Tiny flakes. Probably it won’t amount to even a dusting. But it’s a reminder to pray for those who are getting pounded North and East of here.
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. 
I gotta get a big print of that picture of St. Jerome. I always kinda liked him for being a curmudgeon, but now that I see that he, too, had a messy office, I like him even better.
Each one of those volumes, by the way, would have cost an unfathomable amount of money, with each page being made of the skins of beasts. Yikes! It seems he missed being elected to the See of Peter by four votes. A sevenfold Yikes!
Hmm… no Hermit cards at the Hallmark shop – have to make up my own for you for this special day:
Happy, Happy Hermit’s Day
May all your problems go away!
May you stay hidden by many metres
From all those sticky trick-or-treaters!
Best Wishes, B&A
Hah hah hah!!!
Happy Hermit’s day Father. May Mother Mary and St. Paul called “the first hermit” continue to intercede for HSH and all hermitages.