The year is waning and the time of Hallowmas is approaching quickly. Parsifal is at work on the chapel, shoring it up for the approaching winter and bringing in a few simple wooden statues of the Apostles and St. Michael to deck out the altar ( Read more... )

Guinevere might not be the official queen of this place, but in Parsifal's gentle mind, she is his queen and he has never seen reason not to regard her otherwise. And so he is bringing a curious young man to be presented to her.

He's leading the way into the main room, peering about, looking for his lady.

So, going for a Parsifal-Billy-Gwen

It's getting on toward the end of the Christmas season, and Parsifal is taking down the faded greenery in the chapel, as well as laying in a supply of candles, preparatory to Candlemass in a few days. He's always fond the days after Christmas and before Lent to be almost more dry and penitential than the days of fasting and prayer themselves, ( Read more... )