The Drowning Man (2006)
“Seated in the back were four or five of the younger generation—younger than the elders by a decade or so—who had started coming to daily Mass. But where were the other familiar faces? Connie Buckman and JoAnn Postings? Where was Norman Yellow Hawk?“Let us pray together,” Father John said. There was the scrape of kneelers pushed back into place as the congregation shuffled to their feet amid the murmur of voices: “I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned…...”It was never routine, never automatic, moving through the prayers. Each time he said Mass, Father John thought, was like the first. And yet the sense of peace and quiet that drifted over him with the murmured prayers was familiar, as if he had stepped again into the quiet center of things away from the noise and confusion.He’d been awake most of the night. Tossing about in the stuffy bedroom with the window thrown open and not a whiff of air moving, the bedclothes tangled on the floor somewhere, unable to stop the images moving through his head, like a DVD on automatic replay.MoreLess
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