What does LJ know of SJ...?

[desperance]

One of the joys of my job: I have been working all morning and I'd just hit not a problem but a pause, a time for thinking. Specifically, my narrator was just off to a formal reception where she simply had to be for reasons of credibility, but I didn't have a story reason for her to be there, it was going to take up pages and I couldn't see how it would advance the reader's engagement with the plot or the character or the setting; so I went for a walk. Halfway round the graveyard - of course! Among the people she meets there are the Catholic priests who will play such a significant part later on, I knew they had to turn up somewhere, obviously this is it...

So I walk on, cheerfully at one with myself and my craft; and five minutes later, in the hospital grounds, I suddenly think, oh hey, how's about if they're Jesuits? Not at all unlikely, in context, and it adds that extra layer of richness. But. Do they introduce themselves as Jesuits, is that what Jesuits do? And if not, is there a button, a pin, a ring, some outward and visible sign of their inward and spiritual grace...?

Wiki doesn't know. It says there's no particular habit of dress these days, so that's out, no identifiable cut of cassock. Does LJ know? Anyone...?

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

The chances are they will be intimidatingly well read in some interestingly obscure areas and have senses of humour that would draw blood were it not for the smiles.

Thank you; that's lovely. And useful.