… ‘these odd circumstances where soul touches soul are Eucharistic.’
Remember Me by Penelope Wilcock (the 6 th in the Hawk and Dove series) takes up and continues to follow the threads of life in the medieval monastery of St. Alcuin. Father William struggles with the finances of the Abbey, struggles against his falling in love and agonizes over his vows. The unraveling of the scroll of life in St Alcuin’s is linked by splashes and splodges of the characters’ very humanness. These people are revealed. They are alive. Their pride, despair, humility, anger and gratitude are teased and held together by the gold of love as vibrant and real as those of the most precious of illuminated manuscripts, filled with precious moments such as Abbott John’s musings about the Good Thief and the relationship of dismember to remember, in preparation for a homily to the community, ‘…if this life tears a man apart, dismembers him, the power and grace of Christ will remember him, make him whole…’ So enthralled was I b...