In June I was asked if I would submit my favorite spiritual practice for publication in The Sceptre, the monthly newsletter for Church of the Advent of Christ the King in San Francisco. I share here what I wrote: Preserve us, O Lord, while waking, and guard us while sleeping, that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace. AMEN. As a mediaevalist and an art historian, I naturally gravitate to those passages of scripture and liturgy which reflect a sense