I slept late this morning, missing mass at St Clare, heading directly to the Spanish lesson with Lilly. We are accomplishing amazing things. What a refined and cultured married woman God has blessed my life with. All properness in order, a profound friendship is blossoming. The Spanish is coming together. Lilly is an intelligent educated woman of the world. What a tremendous hour at the coffee house being instructed and talking about life and foreign cultures. Lilly and her husband are fallen away Catholics, however she mentions an interest in reading about saints sweeping over her life. She is curious how devout people of religious practice lived their lives. Her cousin is a noted Jesuit priest, an author writing literary criticism. She gave me his name. I will explore. I mentioned St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila. She eagerly wrote the names down, promising research and reading. We will meet again Wednesday, a day before my retreat to Massachusetts. On a discerning level, I am convinced God is introducing all these married women for a reason. Proper behavior and thought is demanded for one always willing to give his heart away. It is enough to have God grant the blessing of so many pleasant women in my life. Friendship is a grace of the highest regard. There is no need to stay attached to dramatics. Enough said for the time being. There is only one I am leery about, and that one, in all honesty, is so adorable in humility, goofiness, and beauty that her charm may be her undoing. In truth, as I seek maturity, in her extreme uniqueness, magnetism, loneliness, devotion to her husband; maturity is a lacking regard—written with do charity and respect. Remember this mischievous kind-hearted one was lying to all the boys in the fifties that she was eighteen when she was fourteen. Now in her seventies, that little girl still lives on. God is good and all giving. Advancing the fellowship, I attended noon Mass at Sacred Heart, astounded by how many people I know. Sacred Heart is a spiritually mature congregation, offering a plenitude of prayer and authentic Catholic fellowship.