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Updated: May 14, 2025
It fell to Mark's lot to entertain the new chaplain that evening, because Brother Jerome who had become guest-master when Brother Anselm took his place as cellarer was in the infirmary. Mark was scarcely prepared for the kind of personality that Hett's proved to be.
And he was at once happy and uneasy; happy, for the meeting he had had with the father guest-master, had removed all the doubts he had entertained as to the supernatural side to the sudden change of a priest for a monk to communicate him; happy, also, to know that not only had Christ not repulsed him in spite of all the disorders of his life, but that He was encouraging him and giving him pledges, ratifying the signs of His favours by perceptible acts.
I will come for you to your cell, and will take you to Father Maximin, who confesses us at that time." And without waiting for his answer, the guest-master pressed his hand and went. "He is right," said the oblate; "it is the true remedy." And when he had regained his room, Durtal thought,
By the way, I'm going to have Brother Nicholas to work out here awhile, and I want you to act as guest-master. Brother Raymond will be porter, and I'm going to send Brother Birinus off the farm to be sacristan. I shall miss him out here, of course." The Prior put his hand once more to the plough, and Mark went slowly back to the Abbey.
For instance, Father Etienne is cellarer of the Abbey and guest-master, he is also sacristan and bell-ringer. I too, am first cantor and professor of plain song." And while the carriage rolled along, shaken by the ruts, the procurator declared to Durtal, who told him how much the offices chanted at the monastery had delighted him,
I've brought a little book on it I thought you might like to look at." He handed a little volume out of his bag. "And to-night?" asked Monsignor heavily. "To-night we're staying at Thurles. I made all arrangements this afternoon." "And our programme?" Father Jervis smiled. "That'll depend on the guest-master," he said, "We put ourselves entirely under his orders, as I told you.
"And this proves that your conversion is good," affirmed the oblate. "God! But it was not He at any rate who insinuated doubts about the Faith, who caused to be born in me that madness of scruples, who raised in me that spirit of blasphemy, who caressed my face with disgusting apparitions." "No, but He allows it. It is frightful, I know it," said the guest-master.
Chris had gathered up the cold lentils patiently and carried them back to the kitchen. On another day a farmer had flatly refused a favour to the monk who superintended the priory-farm. "I will not have your beasts in my orchard," he had said roughly. "You are not my masters." The congregations too were visibly declining, as the guest-master had said.
Durtal pressed the hands of the guest-master and the oblate for the last time, when the Father abbot came in his turn to wish him a safe journey; and at the end of the court Durtal perceived two eyes fixed on him, those of Brother Anacletus, who, at a distance, said adieu by a slight bow, but without other gesture.
Mark expected to be made porter again, but the Reverend Father did not attempt to change the posts assigned to the brethren by the Prior, and Mark remained guest-master, a duty that was likely to give him plenty of occupation during the summer months now close at hand. George to acquaint you with our financial position, and to ask you to make a grave decision.
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