Guard & Guide
Night Wings, by Yuumei Lections: St Michael and All Angels ( Michaelmas ), AD 2025 C You may find the accompanying children’s sermon here . Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. In 1904, in his famous book of Japanese ghost stories entitled Kwaidan , Lafcadio Hearn wrote the following passage about a phenomenon which he termed “The Eternal Haunter.” Perhaps—for it happens to some of us—you may have seen this haunter, in dreams of the night, even during childhood. Then, of course, you could not know the beautiful shape bending above your rest: possibly you thought her to be an angel … Once that you have seen her she will never cease to visit you. And this haunting,—ineffably sweet, inexplicably sad,—may fill you with rash desire to wander over the world in search of somebody like her. But however long and far you wander, never will you find that somebody...
