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Curiously enough, having just done the calculation, if I post one teaser per week from each chapter in turn, that takes me almost exactly up to publication day! Sounds like a good enough reason to continue. Please note that the teasers may sometimes be edited and condensed to stand better on their own.
from chapter 2
The archbishop finally raised his hand to interrupt her. “This is all very fascinating, but not much to the point. Do we know that the results of the new ceremony are different from those of the older one?”
“It's true that I never witnessed the older version in whole,” Margerit admitted. “But mysteries from the Penekiz tradition are used widely in local celebrations. All the Penekiz tutelas have the same general form. And I've found at least two village churches dedicated to Saint Mauriz that use a version of the same text as ours—without the elaborations, of course. Akolbin is near enough that I was able to witness theirs on Mauriz's feast day this year as well as our own.” She began setting out the last sequence of diagrams. “Here and here are the key points, especially the conclusion, the missio, when the charis is granted.” She indicated the swirl of exploding colors in the new image. “Saint Mauriz is supposed to solicit God's grace to encompass the entire parish the way it does here. Instead, in the Rotenek ceremony, the charis sinks away beside the altar. I believe the change in wording directs the charis to encompass only the buried relics of the saint.”
The archbishop was signaling for her silence again. “I meant,” he said emphatically, “that you have not demonstrated that any difference in the forms of the celebration would change the results. Do you think divine grace comes and goes at our command?”
from chapter 2
The archbishop finally raised his hand to interrupt her. “This is all very fascinating, but not much to the point. Do we know that the results of the new ceremony are different from those of the older one?”
“It's true that I never witnessed the older version in whole,” Margerit admitted. “But mysteries from the Penekiz tradition are used widely in local celebrations. All the Penekiz tutelas have the same general form. And I've found at least two village churches dedicated to Saint Mauriz that use a version of the same text as ours—without the elaborations, of course. Akolbin is near enough that I was able to witness theirs on Mauriz's feast day this year as well as our own.” She began setting out the last sequence of diagrams. “Here and here are the key points, especially the conclusion, the missio, when the charis is granted.” She indicated the swirl of exploding colors in the new image. “Saint Mauriz is supposed to solicit God's grace to encompass the entire parish the way it does here. Instead, in the Rotenek ceremony, the charis sinks away beside the altar. I believe the change in wording directs the charis to encompass only the buried relics of the saint.”
The archbishop was signaling for her silence again. “I meant,” he said emphatically, “that you have not demonstrated that any difference in the forms of the celebration would change the results. Do you think divine grace comes and goes at our command?”
