For the second time in as many days, Rupert dressed for the Mass. He was as slow as he had been the previous day, but this time, he deliberately and carefully tied the vestments in honour of Matthew.
Rupert wondered what his father would have thought when he dressed as a priest. He remembered how in awe of him he had been when he saw him in his vestments and had believed that his father was blessed. When was it that Rupert’s awe was replaced with contempt? Ross had never revered their father; he’d seen through him all along. Yet, ironically, it was Ross who had shown him the greater compassion.
Rupert remembered, with love, this characteristic that marked his brother. Ross was full of failings, but he was generous in his compassion and understanding of them in others; a virtue that Ruper
