Thank you, Brother Charles, for being kind and gentle enough to get into my hard heart; it’s a bit unclear how anyone else could have do so.

Thank you, Brother Charles, for showing me that contemplation of Jesus in our neighbours is such a good.

Thank you, Brother Charles, for your silence. You see to stand like Saint Joseph: silent, watchful, gentle, active and contemplative at once.

Thank you, Brother Charles, for teaching me from my very first days of conversion to love the Eucharistic Presence and to long to receive Communion through those two years I had to wait to be received into the Church.

Thank you, Brother Charles, for assuring me that contemplation and social justice weren’t in any way opposed but actually strengthened one another.

Thank you, Brother Charles, for taking me by the hand, despite all the things I’ve done.

It’s your feast day. Thank you.