I am beginning to write as if it was necessary to convince you of the necessity of making the Blessed Sacrament the central feature of the religious life to-day and for ever until the end of the world. But, I know you won't think I'm doing anything of the kind, for really I am only trying to show you how much my faith has been strengthened and how much my outlook has deepened and how much more than ever I long to be a priest to be able to give poor people Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
"And Mark Anthony has nothing but a fat, poverty-stricken, slothful mission priest," Father Rowley gurgled.
CHAPTER XVII
Gradually, Mark found to his pleasure and his pride that he was becoming, if not indispensable to Father Rowley (the Missioner Cheap Christian Louboutin Shoes found no Louis Vuitton Outlet human being indispensable) at any rate quite evidently useful. Perhaps Father Rowley though that in allowing himself to rely considerably upon Mark's secretarial talent he was indulging himself in a luxury to which he was not entitled. That was Father Rowley's way. The moment he discovered himself enjoying anything too much, whether it was a cigar or a secretary, he cut himself Christian Louboutin Wedges off from it, and this not in any spirit of mortification for mortification's sake, but because he dreaded the possibility of putting the slightest drag upon his freedom to criticize others. He had no doubt at all in his own mind that he was perfectly justified in making use of Mark's intelligence and energy. But in a place like the Mission House, where everybody from lay helper to casual guest was supposed to stand on his own feet, the Missioner himself felt that he must offer an example of independence.
"All these other people have any amount to do," said Mark. "Cartwright has his boys every evening and Warrender has his men."
Mark insisted that he was getting along in his own way quite fast enough, and that he had plenty of time on his hands to keep Father Rowley's correspondence in some kind of order.
"I know," Mark agreed contentedly. "I want to give you a rest for once."
"Rest?" the priest echoed. "You don't seriously expect a fat man like me to sit down in an armchair and rest, do you? Besides, you've http://www.christianlouboutinshoeswm.com got your own reading Louis Vuitton Online to do, and you didn't come to Chatsea as my punkah walla."
Sacrament. All his prayers (and he makes a great use of extempore prayer, much to the annoyance of the Bishop, who considers it ungrammatical), all his sermons, all his actions revolve round that one great fact. "Jesus Christ is what you need," he says, "and Jesus Christ is here in your church, here upon your altar."
Your ever affectionate
Mark.
"Yes, and you're more trouble than all the rest put together. Look here, I've written to the Bishop's chaplain about that confirmation; I explained why we wanted to hold a special
You can't go into the little church without finding fifty people praying before the Blessed Sacrament. The other day when the "King Harry" was sunk by the "Trafalgar," the people here subscribed I forget how many pounds for the widows and children of the bluejackets and marines of the Mission who were drowned, and when it was finished and the subscription list was closed, they subscribed all over again to Louis Vuitton Sale erect an altar at which to say Masses Chrisian Louboutin Shoes for the dead. And the old women living in Father Rowley's free houses that were once brothels gave up their summer outing so Cheap Louis Vuitton that the money spent on them might be added to the fund. When the Bishop of Silchester came here last week for Confirmation he asked Father Rowley what that altar was.
THE DRUNKEN PRIEST
"That is the ugliest thing I've ever seen," he said. But when Father Coach Outlet Online Rowley told him about the poor people and the http://www.coachmh.com old women who had no money of their own, he said: "That is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard."
"You're spoiling me, Mark Anthony," he said one day. "There's nothing for me to do this evening."
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