``I pray you of dear love, reverend father,'' she replied in his own language, ``that you will deign to visit with your ghostly comfort a wounded prisoner of this castle, and have such compassion upon him and us as thy holy office teaches Never shall good deed so highly advantage thy convent.''
I am fresh from my holy office, and would avoid pollution.''
"Do you think that I should undertake this
holy office?"
That which they call a
holy office is not so much as brave and manly.
I understand not your allusions about lines and angles; and I leave expounding to those who have been called and set apart for that
holy office. I lay claim to no higher gift than a small insight into the glorious art of petitioning and thanksgiving, as practiced in psalmody."
"She should have more respect for his
holy office, then," retorted Mrs.
But, after dinner, when the day turned to twilight, and the twilight turned to night, and still no communication was made to him, it began to be as he expressed it, 'like the
Holy Office and slow torture.' However, still true to his conviction that indifference was the genuine high-breeding
For the sake of your
holy office, do away this scandal!"
No one spoke about it, neither did the
Holy Office. The envelope lay in a desk drawer in the Pope's bedroom.
Only around 20 clergy will be invited to attend the
holy office that will be held in a side chapel, as the main chapel is still unusable and full of debris.
During the early morning hours, when the town's churches are closed, the "Sect of the Angels" meets in the sacristy to carry out their
holy office: initiating devout virgins into the rites of married life.
They cover from Iberia to the Mediterranean, under the gaze of the
Holy Office, New Christians and (other) identities, western Sephardic variations, and Luso-Brazilian policies during the Holocaust.
