Status Updates From Works of Mercy

"I went out, leaving my sins behind me... Next day, while Ranse read the funny papers, I went to Mass and received the Body and Blood of God. All these years later, here I was again, repeating the cycle: born again, born again, born again. It was what Mother Sain had wished for me, after all. She did not consider, nor did I know, having never given birth, how long it can take or what hard work it is."

"It was a vocation, I thought, to be sent into the world to marvel at its strangeness. One could make a whole life of such work" (246).

"Over everything the stars cast their handfuls of cold fire" (202).