A good and holy deacon — and deacons are always good and holy, by the way — reprimanded me for not being more solicitous in my inclusion of good and holy deacons in everything that Holy Souls Hermitage is on about. So, I repent! I added a note to the bottom of the about page, and updated the welcome widget on the side bar.
Perhaps this lacuna had to wait to be fixed until I started to come to grips a bit more with my own rather extraordinary experience as a deacon, which had some spectacular moments, some good, some rather trying (which is always for the good). In putting up the first chapter of my autobiography the other day, I said that in the incident recounted that I was a youngster, which was true. But what I failed to mention is that I was only some months away from being ordained to the diaconate.
I do have a devotion to Saint Stephen, whose martyrdom is recounted in the Acts of the Apostles. Another favorite deacon is Lawrence. The latter became a significant part of a trilogy I’ve been writing…
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. 
