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02262aam a2200361 i 4500 001 990EE13CF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240402011628 008 220912t20222022xxu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1951319737 020 $a 9781951319731 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1344305764 040 $a MDK $b eng $e rda $c MDK $d ANK $d OCLCF $d EEI $d SO$ $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3620.H64224 $b W67 2022 082 14 $a [Fic] 100 1 $a Thomas, Sally, $e author. 245 10 $a Works of mercy / $c Sally Thomas. 260 $a [United States] : $b Wiseblood Books, $c [2022] 300 $a 264 pages ; $c 20 cm 520 $a Kirsty Sain, aging housekeeper for the newly arrived young priest, assumes that despite this personnel change in her rural parish, her own solitary rounds will proceed as always. She will go to Mass, clean the rectory, go home again. She will keep herself to herself in the safely-hedged present and coexist in detente with the past. When a hairless, eyeless kitten is thrust upon her, an unlikely deterrent to the mice invading her house, she declares, "I am not going to love that thing." She has spent a lifetime armoring herself against the risks of affection. But between the hapless Father Schuyler, who teeters on the edge of breakdown, and the crises of the Malkins, a parish family whose cheerful chaos erupts in tragedy, Kirsty finds her own wounds broken open. Drawn against her will into the sufferings of these vulnerable lives, she returns to an old hero, the Elizabethan poet-priest Robert Southwell, whose "Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears" provides a skeleton key to her own locked heart. In Southwell's words, "love is the fire" that renders all things new. 600 10 $a Southwell, Robert, $c Saint, $d 1561?-1595 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Housekeepers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Priests $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Clergy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Parish houses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Cats $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Poetry $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Religious fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Christian fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012720.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=990EE13CF0B811EE9EC0998A3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search