Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè On this day I’m assigned a bench near the front of the scriptorium. So the work I do must be of fine quality as fewer monks are ahead of me to check my work. It’s a sign my accuracy is trusted. I’m also supplied with a monk’s robe andContinue reading “Post #23.12, Thursday, August 26, 2021”
Category Archives: Christian History
Post #23.11, Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Our guest, the wine merchant, leaves after breakfast. Odd it may be that this other guest of Ligugè, who I am, waiting for my assignment makes such a warm farewell of his leaving. I’m glad my family is so near that he may come here from time to timeContinue reading “Post #23.11, Wednesday, August 25, 2021”
Post #23.10, Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè We don’t have vineyards here at Ligugè now. There is an ancient and unattended sprawling of vines dangling in the wilderness trees among the cells of the monks, but here we purchase our wine. The wine seller is here and I’m disrupted from the inks to go and assistContinue reading “Post #23.10, Tuesday, August 24, 2021”
Post #23.9, Thursday, August 19, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Brother August is telling me about the double monastery now called the Abby of the Holy Cross. August explains, “While I was in the infirmary some of the nuns assigned to patient care were always whispering among themselves about how they were mistreated by the strict rule ofContinue reading “Post #23.9, Thursday, August 19, 2021”
Post #23.8, Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè Just before the silence Brother August was telling me of the women’s convent which I thought was named for St. Mary, Abbaye de Sainte-Marie, at Poitiers. He said it was renamed after a relic of the true cross that the abbess, Radigund, a queen, was able to acquire forContinue reading “Post #23.8, Wednesday, August 18, 2021”
Post #23.7, Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè As Brother August and I prepare to set the supper he chooses to speak to me about the whispers of the master of the scribes today in the scriptorium. He was asking of my training. Brother August, thinking I am my son, assumes I was taught to read andContinue reading “Post #23.7, Tuesday, August 17, 2021”
Post #23.6, Thursday, August 12, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè The monks are seated at the boards spread for the meal in the oratory this morning. Some are here with hidden scars, some with pale echoes of “Gloria” still lingering, passing the basket of bread from one to another as we all are one great omelet of God’s love.Continue reading “Post #23.6, Thursday, August 12, 2021”
Post #23.5, Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè “We don’t have to hurry,” August explains, “the bread is rising, and the meal is eggs which will cook quickly as everyone is gathering at the boards.” We break each egg and beat it into the froth as Brother August shares another bit of Brother Joel’s wisdom. Continue reading “Post #23.5, Wednesday, August 11, 2021”
Post #23.4, Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè As a guest at Ligugè I’m assigned to visitor’s quarters in a small room in the villa while the monks are outside the walls in caves and hovels. In my last life here as a monk my cell was made of a few stones but mostly of sticks andContinue reading “Post #23.4, Tuesday, August 10, 2021”
Post #23.3, Thursday, August 5, 2021
Historical setting: 584 C.E. Ligugè The abbot is allowing me to stay here and work in the scriptorium to copy from Eve’s book as long as I follow the rule of this abbey. Having been here before I know the daily patterns they keep. But the abbot doesn’t remember me. He argues, “No,Continue reading “Post #23.3, Thursday, August 5, 2021”
Lazarus Ink 