Just after my previous message, I read this: "[God] lets himself be
persuaded more easily by nocturnal prayers in which you turn the time of
repose into a time of mourning....Afetr such vigils, sleep is
comforting." (Acta Apostolorum, hom. 26 (PG 60: 202-203)
The owl as monk/religious/Christian at night office?
KW
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