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Updated: May 17, 2025
"A woman, not a parishioner." The door was almost shut now. Footsteps down the hall. "Good! Let her in." The door opened ever so reluctantly. Father Fitzpatrick loomed up beside his puny assistant, dwarfing him. He looked sharply at the figure on the porch. "For the love of ! Casey, you're a fool! How you ever got beyond being an altar-boy is more than I can see. Come in, child. Come in!
"If you don't mind I'll stay outside in the hall, and rush in to act as altar-boy, when she agrees to 'vert." "I'm going for all your ridicule, Arthur." "No objection, but keep a cool head, and bear in mind that I am in the hall outside." He suspected the motive of Sister Claire, both in making this appointment, and in playing at conversion with Sister Magdalen.
The Montgomery girls had all been famous for their beauty in the earlier history of Cherry Hill, and Anne had been the belle of her time. He remembered her thirty years back, on the day of her marriage, when he served as altar-boy at her wedding; and recalled a sweet-faced girl, with light brown silken hair, languorous blue eyes, rose-pink skin, the loveliest mouth, the most provoking chin.
The devout server at Mass shares in its graces next to the celebrant, and more than the ordinary faithful who assist at it; and many an altar-boy, as he glided about the sanctuary, mingling with the invisible angels who hovered around the Victim of sacrifice, has felt the seeds of vocation sprouting in his soul. Devotion to the Mother of God should also be a characteristic of youth.
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